The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
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- Chapter 3 -
(Hebrews 5:11–14)
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Christ Our Foundation
(Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
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God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20)
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Footnotes
(a)3:12
Upon this foundation: The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this foundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more perfect preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and stubble, such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such practice as is mixed with much imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his fiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately after death,) shall make manifest of what sort every man’s work has been: of which, during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For then the fire of God’s judgment shall try every man’s work. And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being found to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon the right foundation, (by living and dying in the true faith and in the state of grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as by fire; being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and stubble, which was mixed with their building.(Challoner)
(Hebrews 5:11–14)
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Christ Our Foundation
(Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
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12
13
14
15
God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20)
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Footnotes
(a)3:19 ℘ Job 5:13
(b)3:20 ℘ Psalms 94:11