Reference: Builder
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As early as Ge 4:17 we read of Cain building a city and calling it after his son's name; since which time building houses has become general; whereas Abraham looked for a city whose Builder is God. It is used as symbolical of raising up a spiritual edifice to God, of which Christ is the Builder. Mt 16:18; 1Co 3:9; Eph 2:21; 1Pe 2:5. As instruments, others also are builders
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But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?
He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.
Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so.
Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so. For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ himself. read more. And whether one uses gold or silver or costly stone in building on the foundation, or wood or hay or straw, the quality of everyone's work will appear, for the Day will show it. For the Day will break in fire, and the fire will test the quality of everyone's work. If what a man has built on the foundation stands the test, he will have his pay.
You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord,
You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways