Building Monuments

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. — read the full passage →

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; — read the full passage →

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

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. — read the full passage →

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon–gog.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. — read the full passage →

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. — read the full passage →

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: — read the full passage →

And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. — read the full passage →