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Bible Verses About Building

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

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

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

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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

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

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When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

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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 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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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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But Solomon built him an house.

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

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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

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Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

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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 the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

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

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

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

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

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And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

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And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.

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He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

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Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

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Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.

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I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

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Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

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Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

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And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

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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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