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100 Bible Verses about Strong Foundation

Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 644 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV / 446 helpful votes

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Luke 6:47-49 ESV / 438 helpful votes

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 6:48 ESV / 371 helpful votes

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 322 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Psalm 11:3 ESV / 285 helpful votes

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 282 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 263 helpful votes

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

1 Corinthians 3:13-16 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Ezra 3:11 ESV / 233 helpful votes

And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

Psalm 118:22 ESV / 229 helpful votes

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV / 225 helpful votes

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:4-6 ESV / 224 helpful votes

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 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. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 212 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 207 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 199 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

John 13:35 ESV / 196 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV / 191 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

1 Corinthians 3:10 ESV / 149 helpful votes

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 142 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

1 Peter 2:6 ESV / 133 helpful votes

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

1 Kings 5:17 ESV / 130 helpful votes

At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

Acts 4:11 ESV / 129 helpful votes

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.

Matthew 7:25 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 3:10-11 ESV / 125 helpful votes

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 122 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

John 1:1 ESV / 120 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 18:2 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Joshua 6:26 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. “At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”

Revelation 21:14 ESV / 117 helpful votes

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Matthew 21:42 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Deuteronomy 28:6 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 109 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Timothy 6:19 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

Romans 15:20 ESV / 104 helpful votes

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,

Zechariah 8:9 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

John 3:16 ESV / 100 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Micah 5:2 ESV / 99 helpful votes

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Proverbs 10:25 ESV / 99 helpful votes

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 97 helpful votes

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 95 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Deuteronomy 32:22 ESV / 95 helpful votes

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Hebrews 11:10 ESV / 94 helpful votes

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 92 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

John 14:6 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 Kings 6:37 ESV / 91 helpful votes

In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 90 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Isaiah 54:11 ESV / 87 helpful votes

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Proverbs 3:14 ESV / 86 helpful votes

For the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.

1 Samuel 2:2 ESV / 86 helpful votes

“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

2 Samuel 22:47 ESV / 84 helpful votes

“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

Zechariah 4:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

Luke 6:49 ESV / 81 helpful votes

But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Ezekiel 13:14 ESV / 81 helpful votes

And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Acts 16:26 ESV / 80 helpful votes

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Deuteronomy 32:31 ESV / 80 helpful votes

For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.

2 Samuel 22:16 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Haggai 2:18 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider:

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Isaiah 44:28 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

Ezra 6:3 ESV / 75 helpful votes

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,

Psalm 18:31 ESV / 74 helpful votes

For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?—

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

John 16:33 ESV / 71 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Hebrews 1:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;

Romans 12:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Luke 6:47 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

Mark 16:16 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Psalm 62:2 ESV / 59 helpful votes

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Luke 6:47-48 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 102:25 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

John 14:15 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 8:58 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

Mark 10:10 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Isaiah 58:12 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.

2 Peter 3:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

Luke 6:46-49 ESV / 31 helpful votes

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Matthew 21:42-44 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

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