Colossians 2:7
having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Ephesians 3:17
I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea,
Ephesians 2:20-22
You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,
Colossians 1:23
if, indeed, you are still firmly holding to faith as your foundation, without ever shifting from your hope that rests on the Good News that you have heard, which has been proclaimed in the whole creation under Heaven, and in which I Paul have been appointed to serve.
Romans 11:17-18
And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,
Ephesians 5:20
Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Matthew 7:24-25
"Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;
Luke 6:48
He is like a man building a house, who digs and goes deep, and lays the foundation on the rock; and when a flood comes, the torrent bursts upon that house, but is unable to shake it, because it is securely built.
Romans 16:25
To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,
1 Corinthians 3:9-15
Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 1:21
But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,
Ephesians 4:21
if at least you have heard His voice and in Him have been taught--and this is true Christian teaching--
Colossians 1:12-13
and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.
2 Thessalonians 2:17
comfort your hearts and make you stedfast in every good work and word.
Hebrews 13:15
Through Him, then, let us continually lay on the altar a sacrifice of praise to God, namely, the utterance of lips that give thanks to His Name.
1 Peter 2:4-6
Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.
1 Peter 5:10
And God, the giver of all grace, who has called you to share His eternal glory, through Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong.
2 Peter 3:17-18
You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.
Jude 1:12
These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;
Jude 1:20
But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Jude 1:24
But to Him who is able to keep you safe from stumbling, and cause you to stand in the presence of His glory free from blemish and full of exultant joy--
John 15:4-5
Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.