Lexicon :: Strong's G3618 - oikodomeō

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.[fn]

This is what the Lord has done

and it is wonderful in our eyes?

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’ ”

and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! ”

He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

“Haven’t you read this Scripture:

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.’ ”

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

They got up, drove him out of town, and brought him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl him over the cliff.

“He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

“because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue.”

“Woe to you! You build tombs[fn] for the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

“I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

“saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

“It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

But he looked at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of this Scripture:[fn]

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone?

Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,[fn] and will you raise it up in three days? ”

“This Jesus is

the stone rejected by you builders,

which has become the cornerstone.

“It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,

“Heaven is my throne,

and the earth my footstool.

What sort of house will you build for me?

says the Lord,

or what will be my resting place?

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

“And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

My aim is to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that I will not build on someone else’s foundation,

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged[fn] to eat food offered to idols?

“Everything is permissible,”[fn] but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,”[fn] but not everything builds up.

The person who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood[fn] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

So honor will come to you who believe; but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected —

this one has become the cornerstone,