The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.

The foundation stones of the wall of the city were ornamented with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

And whether one uses gold or silver or costly stone in building on the foundation, or wood or hay or straw,

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.

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.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Yet God's solid foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who uses the name of the Lord must give up evil."

who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages,

But you, dear friends, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit,

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

The animal that you saw was, and is no more; it is going to come up out of the abyss, but it is to go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be amazed when they see that the animal was, and is no more, and yet is to come.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

But the man who listens to it, and does not act upon it, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and it collapsed at once, and the wreck of that house was complete."

Or else when he has laid his foundation and cannot finish the building, everyone who sees it will begin to ridicule him,

The Jews again picked up stones to stone him with.