1 Corinthians 3:12

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If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

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  • Ps 19:10 : 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
  • Prov 8:10 : 10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
  • Prov 30:6 : 6 Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar.
  • Isa 54:11-13 : 11 “O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis lazuli. 12 I will make your pinnacles out of gems, your gates out of beryl, and your outer wall out of beautiful stones. 13 All your children will be followers of the LORD, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.
  • Isa 60:17 : 17 Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.
  • Jer 23:28 : 28 Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Matt 15:6-9 : 6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  • Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
  • Col 2:18-23 : 18 Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind. 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God. 20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world? 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” 22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings. 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
  • 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings, 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7 But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.
  • 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words(that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,
  • 2 Tim 2:16-18 : 16 But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness, 17 and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group. 18 They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.
  • 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.
  • 2 Tim 3:7 : 7 Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.
  • Titus 1:9-9 : 9 He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it. 10 For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections, 11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
  • Titus 3:9-9 : 9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty. 10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. 11 You know that such a person is twisted by sin and is conscious of it himself.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
  • Rev 3:18 : 18 take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
  • Rev 21:18 : 18 The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

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  • 1 Cor 3:9-11
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    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

    11For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:13-17
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    82%

    13each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

    14If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

    15If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 2 Tim 2:19-21
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    19However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”

    20Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Eph 2:20-22
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    72%

    20because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  • 1 Pet 1:7
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    7Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

  • 1 Pet 2:4-7
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    71%

    4A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    6For it says in scripture,“Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

    7So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

  • Heb 3:4
    70%

    4For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

  • Luke 6:48
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    48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

  • 1 Tim 6:19
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    19In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.

  • Isa 28:16
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    16Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD, says:“Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.

  • Luke 14:29
    68%

    29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

  • 1 Kgs 7:10-11
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    10The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.

    11Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.

  • Luke 3:9
    68%

    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Ezek 15:3-4
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    3Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

    4No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

  • Prov 24:3
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    3By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,

  • Matt 3:10
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    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Acts 4:11
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    11This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
    67%

    1Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

  • Prov 27:21
    67%

    21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.

  • Matt 7:24-26
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    24Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

    25The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock.

    26Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

  • Jas 5:3
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    3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

  • Prov 17:3
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    3The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
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    2So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Ezra 6:4
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    4with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.

  • John 15:6
    67%

    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

  • Rev 21:19
    66%

    19The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

  • Job 38:6
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    6On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone–

  • Job 28:6
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    6a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

  • Isa 40:19
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    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • Hab 2:11
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    11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.