- Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain. - Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
- Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
- For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
- For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
- “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
- For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
- For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name. - Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
and his ears toward their cry. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.Next verse!With image