If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹ 

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with ¹  her so that she can bear ²  children ³  for me ⁴  and I can have a family through her.” ⁵ 

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ¹  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  He used the materials to build up ²  Geba and Mizpah.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. ¹ 

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

Have you been thinking all this time ¹  that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up. ² 

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ¹  on the mountain, so they must make it. ² 

and the sons of Aaron, the priest, ¹  must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.

By royal order ¹  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

They agreed ¹  to make large seagoing merchant ships; ²  they built the ships in Ezion Geber.

They ¹  also asked them, “What are the names of the men who are building this edifice?”

The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. ¹ 

until I find a place for the Lord, a fine dwelling place ¹  for the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ² 

Those who make cloth ¹  will be demoralized; ²  all the hired workers will be depressed. ³ 

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke ¹  that carries full authority. ²  Don’t let anyone look down ³  on you.