For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not, first, sitting down, calculate the expense, whether he has enough for its completion?

with a view to the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;

ye yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

And, if any one builds on the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

for every house is built by some one, but He Who built all things is God.

saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish!'

in Whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing up into a holy temple in the Lord;

For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

And the material of its wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like pure glass.

lest, perhaps, having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish it, all who behold begin to mock him,

Jesus saith to them, "Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made head of a corner; this was from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'

The Jews, therefore, said, "In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?"

having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the chief corner-stone;

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;

But do ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

from Whom all the body, fitly framed and knit together through every joint of supply, according to the working in due measure of each single part, secures the growth of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.