21 Bible Verses about construction

for who of you would resolve to build a tower, without taking the trouble first of all to compute the expence, and whether he is able to finish it?

thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

now if upon this foundation somebody builds gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: he that builds such work,

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

no house is without a builder; now he that built the whole house of Israel is God.

this man, will they say, began to build, but wanted stock to finish.

on which the whole structure rises with symmetry into a temple, consecrated by the Lord:

For I know, that if my body, which is but a tent for my sojourning upon earth, were dissolved, I have what is not fram'd by human art, but by the divine architect, a mansion eternal in the heavens.

the wall was built of jasper; and the city was of pure gold, as pure as glass.

for fear he should be made the jest of every spectator, for laying the foundation, without being able to carry it on.

Jesus reply'd, did ye never read in the scriptures, " that very stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle, this the Lord effected, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

to this said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle:

according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

but you, my brethren, improve yourselves in your most holy faith, present your addresses by the holy spirit,

for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;

from which the whole body fitly framed, and compacted by the entire adherence and contribution of every part performing its respective function, increases and improves itself by the mutual concern of the parts.