'Builds' in the Bible

the birds build their nests there, and the heron builds its nest among the evergreen.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly.

Every wise woman builds up her household, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

The person who loves transgression loves strife; the person who builds a high gate invites destruction.

"How terrible for him who builds his house without righteousness, and its upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, and does not pay him his wage.

Abandon the cities, and live on the cliffs, you inhabitants of Moab. Be like a dove that builds a nest by the mouth of a cave.

"When someone builds a wall, they coat it with whitewash. Tell those who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. It will be washed off by the rain. Great hailstones will fall and a stormy wind will strip it off.

"The more altars Ephraim builds for sin, the more altars there will be for sin.

As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw,

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

The person who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up, but the person who prophesies builds up the church.

in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.