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

And whether one puts into the building on the foundation gold or silver or costly stones, or wood or hay or straw,

As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it;

for no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ Himself.

for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.

so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for its pillars had been laid on a rocky foundation.

But God's foundation stands unshaken, with these inscriptions: "The Lord knows the people who belong to Him" and "Everyone who bears the name of the Lord must abstain from evil."

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

who was foreordained for it before the foundation of the world but was brought out to public view at the end of the ages, for the sake of you

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

The wild beast that you saw, once was but now is no more; he is going to come up out of the abyss, but he is going to be destroyed. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be astonished when they see that the wild beast once was but now is no more, and yet is to come.

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

But the man who merely hears them and does not practice them is like a man who built a house upon the ground without a foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and at once it collapsed, and the wreck of that house was complete."

Lest, perchance, after he has laid the foundation but cannot complete the building, all who see it begin to make sport of him,

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

The Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

Now while some people were talking about the temple, how it was decorated with beautiful stones and votive-offerings, He said,

Then the military commander went with his attendants and brought them back, but without any violence, for they were afraid of being pelted with stones by the people.