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Bible Verses About Building Projects

This collection includes 50 passages about Building Projects. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

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And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

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So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

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Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

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Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

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But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

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Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

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Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

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For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

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But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

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Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

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In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

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Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

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Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

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Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

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Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

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According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

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Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

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Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

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He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord,

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Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

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And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

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For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

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Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

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And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

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And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,

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And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

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Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.

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In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

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Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.

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Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.

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And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

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Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

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