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⁴For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.

¹⁰And when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, about which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and when he will have given to you great and excellent cities, which you did not build; ¹¹houses full of goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant;

¹For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

¹⁸And my people will be seated in the beauty of peacefulness, and in the tabernacles of faithfulness, and in the opulence of restfulness.

²⁸For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?

¹³And I gave you a land, in which you did not labor, and cities, which you did not build, so that you might live in them, and vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant.’

⁵Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.

²In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you.

⁶And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days.

³By wisdom shall a house be built, and by prudence shall it be strengthened. ⁴By doctrine, the storerooms shall be filled with every substance that is precious and most beautiful.

¹A Canticle in steps: of Solomon. Unless the Lord has built the house, those who build it have labored in vain. Unless the Lord has guarded the city, he who guards it watches in vain.

²¹And they will build houses, and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards, and will eat their fruits. ²²They will not build, so that another may inhabit. They will not plant, so that another may eat. For according to the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people. And the works of their hands will be long-standing.

¹⁶For this reason, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will set a stone within the foundations of Zion, a tested stone, a cornerstone, a precious stone, which has been established in the foundation: whoever trusts in him need not hurry.

²²The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.

²⁴Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. ²⁶And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, and it did fall, and great was its ruin.”