Bible Verses About Historical Foundations

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

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.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

The same was in the beginning with God.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.