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Bible Verses about “building

The Bible contains 23 verses about building across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Colossians 3:23
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And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

2 Timothy 1:7
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For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Luke 14:28
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For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

1 Thessalonians 5:11
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Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Matthew 7:24
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"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Matthew 7:26
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Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7:25
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The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Matthew 7:27
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The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

Matthew 16:18
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I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Proverbs 24:3
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Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Psalms 127:1
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Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

1 Corinthians 3:11
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For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:22
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in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:21
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in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

1 Corinthians 3:15
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If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Ephesians 2:20
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being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Ephesians 2:19
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So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

1 Corinthians 3:13
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each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

1 Corinthians 3:14
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If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3:12
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But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

1 Corinthians 3:9
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For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

Haggai 1:8
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Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

1 Corinthians 3:10
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According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.