These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Corinthians 3
Brit Hadashah 23 verses
- 1 And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings—mere babes in .
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I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are not strong enough:
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- 3 you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?
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For when some one says, “I belong to ,” and another says, “I belong to Apollos,” is not this the way men of the world speak?
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What then is Apollos? And what is ? They are just Elohim’s servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the .
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2 Corinthians 6:4 1 Corinthians 3:10 2 Corinthians 3:6 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 1 Corinthians 12:28 Romans 10:14-15 Ephesians 3:7 Luke 1:2 1 Corinthians 3:7 1 Peter 4:10 John 3:27 2 Corinthians 3:3 Romans 12:3-6 Colossians 1:25 2 Corinthians 11:23 2 Corinthians 4:5 1 Corinthians 9:17 2 Corinthians 6:1 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Matthew 25:15 2 Corinthians 4:7 -
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I planted and Apollos watered; but it was who was, all the time, giving the increase.
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Acts 18:4-11 Acts 18:26-27 Proverbs 11:25 1 Corinthians 1:30 2 Corinthians 10:14-15 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Corinthians 3:9-10 Acts 14:27 2 Corinthians 3:2-5 Psalm 92:13-15 1 Corinthians 9:7-11 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Acts 19:1 Acts 16:14 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 Psalm 127:1 Acts 11:18 Isaiah 61:11 Psalm 62:9 Acts 21:19 Isaiah 55:10-11 1 Thessalonians 1:5 Psalm 62:11 Romans 15:18 Acts 18:24 -
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So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. who gives the increase is all in all.
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Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.
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Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with , and you are *Elohim’s* field—*Elohim’s* building.
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Ephesians 2:20-22 2 Corinthians 6:1 1 Peter 2:5 1 Corinthians 3:16 Isaiah 61:3 Mark 16:20 Matthew 16:18 Colossians 2:7 John 4:35-38 Matthew 9:37 Isaiah 61:11 Psalm 65:9-13 Mark 4:26-29 Jeremiah 2:21 Isaiah 5:1-7 Isaiah 28:24-29 1 Corinthians 6:19 1 Timothy 3:15 Zechariah 6:12-13 1 Corinthians 3:6 Psalm 118:22 John 15:1-8 Amos 9:11-12 Matthew 20:1-14 Matthew 13:36-42 Psalm 80:8-11 Matthew 21:23-44 Hebrews 3:3-4 Matthew 13:3-9 Hebrews 3:6 Psalm 72:16 Ephesians 2:10 Isaiah 32:20 2 Corinthians 6:16 Matthew 13:18-30 Isaiah 61:5 Isaiah 27:2-3 Acts 4:11 3 John 1:8 -
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In discharge of the task which graciously entrusted to me, I—like a competent master-builder—have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful how and what he builds.
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Romans 12:3 1 Corinthians 3:11 Romans 15:20 1 Peter 4:11 Luke 11:35 1 Corinthians 15:10-12 Matthew 24:45 Revelation 21:14 1 Corinthians 9:2 1 Kings 3:9-11 2 Peter 2:1-3 1 Timothy 4:16 Revelation 21:19 James 3:1 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 2 Timothy 2:15 1 Corinthians 3:5-6 Luke 21:8 Romans 1:5 Colossians 4:17 Daniel 12:3 Matthew 7:24 Colossians 1:29 Romans 15:15 1 Timothy 1:11-14 Acts 18:27 Ephesians 2:20 2 Chronicles 2:12 Ecclesiastes 12:9 Ephesians 3:2-8 2 Corinthians 10:15 Zechariah 4:9 - 11 For no one can lay any other foundation in addition to that which is already laid, namely the .
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And whether the building which any one is erecting on that foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber or hay or straw—
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2 Timothy 2:16-18 Hebrews 13:9 Psalm 119:72 2 Timothy 4:3 Psalm 19:10 1 Timothy 4:6-7 Revelation 3:18 Isaiah 54:11-13 Matthew 15:6-9 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Titus 1:9-11 Revelation 2:14 2 Corinthians 4:2 Isaiah 60:17 Titus 3:9-11 Proverbs 30:6 Colossians 2:8 Romans 16:17 2 Timothy 3:7 1 Peter 1:7 Proverbs 16:16 Acts 20:30 2 Corinthians 2:17 Colossians 2:18-23 2 Timothy 2:20 Revelation 21:18 Proverbs 8:10 2 Timothy 3:13 Jeremiah 23:28 1 Timothy 6:3 -
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the true character of each individual’s work will become manifest. For the day of will disclose it, because that day is soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality of every one’s work—the fire is the thing which will test it.
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- 14 If any one’s work—the building which he has erected—stands the test, he will be rewarded.
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If any one’s work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire.
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- 16 Do you not that you are Elohim’s Sanctuary, and that the of has His home within you?
- 17 If any one is marring the Sanctuary of , him will mar; for the Sanctuary of is , which you all are.
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Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become “foolish” so that he may be wise.
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Galatians 6:3 Isaiah 5:21 1 Corinthians 1:18-21 1 Corinthians 8:1-2 James 1:22 Proverbs 3:5 1 Corinthians 6:9 Jeremiah 8:8 Mark 10:15 Luke 18:17 Matthew 18:4 Titus 3:3 Proverbs 3:7 Luke 21:8 Isaiah 44:20 Romans 11:25 Ephesians 5:6 Galatians 6:7 1 Corinthians 15:33 Proverbs 5:7 1 Corinthians 4:10 2 Timothy 3:13 Romans 12:16 1 John 1:8 James 1:26 Proverbs 26:12 Jeremiah 37:9 - 19 This world’s wisdom is “foolishness” in Elohim’s sight; for it is written, “He snares the wise with their own cunning.”
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And again, “The Lord takes knowledge of the reasonings of the wise—how useless they are.”
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- 21 Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.
- 22 For everything belongs to you—be it or Apollos or , the world or life or death, things present or future—everything belongs to you;
- 23 and you belong to , and belongs to .