1 Corinthians 3:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

And if any man builde on this foundation, golde, siluer, precious stones, timber, haye, or stubble,

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  • Ps 19:10 : 10 And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The Lawe of thy mouth is better vnto me, then thousands of golde and siluer.
  • Prov 8:10 : 10 Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 Howe much better is it to get wisedome then golde? and to get vnderstanding, is more to be desired then siluer.
  • Prov 30:6 : 6 Put nothing vnto his wordes, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.
  • Isa 54:11-13 : 11 O thou afflicted and tossed with tempest, that hast no comfort, beholde, I wil lay thy stones with the carbuncle, and lay thy foundation with saphirs, 12 And I will make thy windowes of emeraudes, and thy gates shining stones, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 13 And all thy children shalbe taught of the Lord, and much peace shalbe to thy children.
  • Isa 60:17 : 17 For brasse will I bring golde, and for yron will I bring siluer, and for wood brasse, and for stones yron. I will also make thy gouernement peace, and thine exactours righteousnesse.
  • Jer 23:28 : 28 The prophet that hath a dreame, let him tell a dreame, and hee that hath my worde, let him speake my worde faithfully: what is the chaffe to the wheate, sayth the Lord?
  • Matt 15:6-9 : 6 Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition. 7 O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying, 8 This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me. 9 But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Moreouer of your owne selues shall men arise speaking peruerse thinges, to drawe disciples after them.
  • Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you brethren, marke them diligently which cause diuision and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned, and auoide them.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest there be any man that spoile you through philosophie, & vaine deceit, through the traditions of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:18-23 : 18 Let no man at his pleasure beare rule ouer you by humblenesse of minde, and worshipping of Angels, aduauncing himselfe in those thinges which hee neuer sawe, rashly puft vp with his fleshly minde, 19 And holdeth not the head, whereof all the body furnished and knit together by ioyntes and bands, increaseth with the increasing of God. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions? 21 As, Touch not, Taste not, Handle not. 22 Which al perish with the vsing, and are after the commandements and doctrines of men. 23 Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.
  • 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 Nowe the Spirit speaketh euidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall giue heede vnto spirits of errour, and doctrines of deuils, 2 Which speake lies through hypocrisie, & haue their cosciences burned with an hote yron, 3 Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.
  • 1 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, which hast bene nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, which thou hast continually followed. 7 But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.
  • 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,
  • 2 Tim 2:16-18 : 16 Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse. 17 And their worde shall fret as a canker: of which sort is Hymeneus and Philetus, 18 Which as concerning ye trueth haue erred from the marke, saying that the resurrection is past alreadie, and do destroy the faith of certaine.
  • 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 Notwithstanding in a great house are not onely vessels of gold & of siluer, but also of wood and of earth, and some for honour, and some vnto dishonour.
  • 2 Tim 3:7 : 7 Which women are euer learning, and are neuer able to come to the acknowledging of the trueth.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But the euill men and deceiuers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceiuing, and being deceiued.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but hauing their eares itching, shal after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers,
  • Titus 1:9-9 : 9 Holding fast that faithfull worde according to doctrine, that he also may bee able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and conuince them that say against it. 10 For there are many disobedient & vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision, 11 Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.
  • Titus 3:9-9 : 9 But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine. 10 Reiect him that is an heretike, after once or twise admonition, 11 Knowing that hee that is such, is peruerted, and sinneth, being damned of his owne selfe.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not caried about with diuers & strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be stablished with grace, and not with meates, which haue not profited them that haue bene occupied therein.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I haue a fewe things against thee, because thou hast there them that maintaine the doctrine of Balaam, which taught Balac to put a stumbling blocke before ye children of Israel, that they should eate of things sacrificed vnto Idoles, and commit fornication.
  • Rev 3:18 : 18 I counsell thee to bye of me gold tried by the fire, that thou maiest bee made rich: and white raiment, that thou maiest be clothed, and that thy filthie nakednesse doe not appeare: and anoynt thine eyes with eye salue, that thou maiest see.
  • Rev 21:18 : 18 And ye building of the wal of it was of Iasper: and the citie was pure golde, like vnto cleare glasse.

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