1 Corinthians 3:12

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1 Corinthians 3:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

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

12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

13 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

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

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Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

Isaiah 60:17

Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

1 Timothy 4:6

By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed.

2 Timothy 2:20

A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:18

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Isaiah 54:11

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 54:12

I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

Isaiah 54:13

Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

Revelation 21:18

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

Proverbs 30:6

Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

Matthew 15:6

he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:

Matthew 15:8

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Matthew 15:9

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

Acts 20:30

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

Romans 16:17

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

Colossians 2:19

He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

Colossians 2:22

These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

Colossians 2:23

Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

1 Timothy 4:2

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

1 Timothy 4:3

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.

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If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,

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But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,

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and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.

2 Timothy 3:7

who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:13

while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.

Titus 1:10

For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

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But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

Titus 3:10

Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

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knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.