43 Bible Verses about construction
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For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?
And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.
for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not completed.
A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner.
Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;
in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes?
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for Jehovah must be exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
They all builded the wall and they that bare burdens laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.
let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work .
from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
Topics on Construction
Ark Of The Covenant, Construction
Exodus 25:10-16And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Three Parts Of Constructions
Genesis 6:16A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Two Parts Of Constructions
Exodus 12:7And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.