Bible Verses about โbuildingโ
The Bible contains 23 verses about building across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โAnd whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,โ
โFor God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.โ
โFor 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?โ
โTherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.โ
โ"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.โ
โEveryone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.โ
โThe 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.โ
โThe rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."โ
โI 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.โ
โThrough wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;โ
โUnless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.โ
โFor no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.โ
โin whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.โ
โin whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;โ
โIf any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.โ
โbeing built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;โ
โSo then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,โ
โeach 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.โ
โIf any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.โ
โBut if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;โ
โFor we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.โ
โGo up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.โ
โAccording 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.โ
