43 Bible Verses about construction

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw--

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.'

A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."

So Solomon built the house and finished it.

The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass.

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

For David said, "Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.

"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build

"When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build."So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.