Proverbs 24:27
Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
1 Kings 5:17-18
By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.
1 Kings 6:7
As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
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Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
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1 Kings 5:17
By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.
1 Kings 6:7
As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
Luke 14:28
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?