21 Bible Verses about Foundations

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed.

For no one can lay another foundation besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus.

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

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.

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,

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

But the foundation of God stands firm, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from wickedness.

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.

And why do you call me Lord! Lord! and do not what I say? Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like. 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.read more.
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.

And if any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, reeds, 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. If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;read more.
if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

to perform good works, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, benevolent, treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the true life.

And thou, Lord, in the beginning didst build from its foundations the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands;

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

And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And I tell you that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my assembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

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.

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God, of baptisms taught, and the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the eternal judgment.

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,