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1 Corinthians 3:11-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

11. For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

12. If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

13. each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

14. If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

15. If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.

16. Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

17. If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.

18. No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

20. and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaningless.

21. So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours —

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