Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.

each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like gleaming jasper, and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.

And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

King David said to the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design -- all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

By means of divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.

The city's wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

He said, "I will not enter my own home, or get into my bed.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.

This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

David said, "My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for its construction." So David made extensive preparations before he died.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple's main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.

He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

We inquired of those elders, asking them, 'Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?'

At that time Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues came to them and asked, "Who gave you authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?"

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

Each stand had four supports, one per side projecting out from the stand.

Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations."

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

They also asked them, "What are the names of the men who are building this edifice?"

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,