Bible verses about "foundation" | Moffatt

¹¹ The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

²⁰ my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline, ¹⁷ Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

¹⁶ for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him; ¹⁷ he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

⁴⁶ Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not? ⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

¹¹ The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other. ¹² On that foundation anyone may build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹³ but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

²⁴ Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.