12 Bible Verses about Architecture

who serve for a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that you make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount;

Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a corner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes?

Have you not read this Scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, has become the head of a corner;

And he looked at them and said, What, then, is this which is written? The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner;

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and performs them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand;read more.
and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell; and its fall was great.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid the foundation on the rock; and when there was a flood, the stream beat against that house and could not shake it, because it was built on a rock. But he that hears and does not, is like a man building a house on the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream beat, and it fell immediately; and the ruin of that house was great.

According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see how he builds on it. For no one can lay another foundation besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus. And if any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, reeds,read more.
each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every man's work what it is.

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,read more.
in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God.

To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious, do you also yourselves be built up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ, for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.read more.
To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the last seven plagues came, and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show you the wife, the bride of the Lamb. And he bore me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God; its luminary was like the most precious stone, like a crystalline jasper.read more.
It had a great and high wall, it had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that spoke with me had a golden measuring rod, to measure the city and its gates and its wall. And the city was square, and its length equal to its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia [1372 English miles]; and the length and breadth and height of it are equal. And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which was of the angel. And the building of its wall was jasper, and the city was of pure gold like clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone; the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardine stone, the seventh chrysolyte, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh hyacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each of the gates was of one pearl. And the street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass. And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.