For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’ ”

“The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”

Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;... a time to break down, and a time to build up.

“I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.