43 Bible Verses about construction

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:

And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.

For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;

The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.