Quotes About Building

By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëHere is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.

Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”

for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”

For we are Godís fellow workers; you are Godís field, Godís building.

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.