21 Bible Verses about construction

"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

And whether the building which any one is erecting on that foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber or hay or straw--

Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.

For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'

in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary in the Lord;

For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.

The solid fabric of the wall was jasper; and the city itself was made of gold, resembling transparent glass.

lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?

"It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"

You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,

In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I--like a competent master-builder--have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful how and what he builds.

But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.