When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them; you shall build an altar to the Lord your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God,
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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