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1 Corinthians 3:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

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The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.

And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.




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