The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
1 Corinthians 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if anyone builds upon the Foundation, whether it be with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, American Standard Version (1901) But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; Common English Bible So, whether someone builds on top of the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, or hay, Catholic Public Domain Version But if anyone builds upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: |
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Take my instruction instead of silver and knowledge rather than choice gold,
Instead of bronze I will bring gold; instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze; instead of stones, iron. I will appoint Peace as your overseer and Righteousness as your taskmaster.
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.
Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.
I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who create dissensions and hindrances, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them.
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.
the work of each builder will become visible, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.
For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many, but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.
We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.
Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
Whoever teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness
In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary.
But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.
so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.
The wall is built of jasper, while the city is pure gold, clear as glass.
Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.