12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble

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LUKE, ii. 35: (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. JOB, Xxiii. 10: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Ps. lxvi. 10: Thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. PRO. xvii. 3: The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. ISA. xlviii. 10: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. JER. xxiii. 29: Is not my word like as fire? saith the LORD. ZEC. xiii. 9: I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. JAMES, i. 3: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 PET. i. 7: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious-though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. do. iv. 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you

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Y ZEC. iii. 2: And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? JUDE, 23: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

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13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the "natural" man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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9 PRO. xiv. 10: The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. do. xx. 27: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. do. xxvii. 19: As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. JER. xvii. 9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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ROM. viii. 15: Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 1 JOHN, v. 20: And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

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"MAT. xvi. 23: Thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 1 COR. i. 18, 23: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness. ROM. viii. 5-7: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally :minded.is/death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not

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2 Milk is fit for children: 3 strife and division, arguments of a fleshly mind: 7 he that planteth, and he that watereth, is nothing: 9 the ministers are God's fellowworkmen: 11 Christ the only foundation : 16 men the temples of God, which 17 must be kept holy: 19 the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

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subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. JAMES, iii. 15 : This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. JUDE, 19: These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

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v Pro. xxviii.5: Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. 1 COR. xii. 10 To another discerning of spirits. do. xiv. 29: Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. 1THES. v. 21: Prove all things. 1 JOHN, iv. 1: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. REV. ii. 2: Thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.

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x JOHN, xv. 15 : Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. do. xvii. 8: For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. .

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bHEB. v. 12, 13 : When for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is

meat : for hitherto 1 ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

3 For ye are yet carnal : for d whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions,2 are ye not carnal, and walk as men ?3

4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but f ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, i Apollos watered ; God gave the increase.

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e1 COR. i. 12: This I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. do ir. 6.

f1 Cor. iv. 1. 2 COR. iii. 3: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

& Ron. xii. 3, 6 : According as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith, 1 PET. iv. 11 : If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

h ACTS, xviii. 4, 8, 11: And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house ; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 1 COR.

7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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iv. 15. do. ix. 1: Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? do. xv. 1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. 2 COR. X. 14, 15: For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the Gospel of Christ: not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours: but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly.

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ACTS, xviii. 24, 27: And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace. do. xix. 1: And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples.

1 COR. i. 30: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. do. xv. 10: By the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 2 COR. iii. 5: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.

2 COR. xii. 11: I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. GAL. vi. 3: For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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"ACTS, xv. 4: They declared all things that God had done with them. 2 COR. iii. 5, 6: Our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament. do. vi.