1 Corinthians 3:12 (WEB)
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
Catechism · 1
“By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 3:18; 12:48; Mt 12:32; I Cor 3:12-15; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26-31.
Fathers and councils · 23
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.13Book IV
“And we assert that they are wickedness, and the works which result from it, and which, being figuratively called “wood, hay, stubble,” God consumes as a fire.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment “…burns and consumes those who by their actions, words, and thoughts have built up wood, or hay, or stubble, in that which is figuratively termed a “building.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus VI.70Book VI
“…are called “wood, and straw, and stubble,” we shall not maintain that sins are corporeal; and if blessings are termed “gold, and silver, and precious stones,” we shall not maintain that blessings are “corporeal;” so also, if God be said to be a fire that consumes wood, and straw, and stubble, and all substance of…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.10Book II
“Of this fire the fuel and food are our sins, which are called by the Apostle Paul “wood, and hay, and stubble.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…to make a confusion between the things they signify: but even if the great Apostle names together wood, hay, stubble, gold, silver, and precious stones, we reckon up summarily the number of things he mentions, and yet do not fail to recognize separately the nature of each of the substances named.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.17On Virginity
“The foundation must by all means first be laid but over it, as the Apostle says, the edifice of gold and precious gems must be built; for so is the doing of the commandment put by the Prophet who cries, “I have loved Thy commandment above gold and many a precious stone.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“We for our part as men charge and teach you thus: but make not ye our building hay and stubble and chaff, lest we suffer loss, from our work being burnt up: but make ye our work gold, and silver, and precious stones!” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12, 15.
Read the whole comment“For this cause Paul warning us beforehand says, If any man buildeth on the foundation gold, and silver, and precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Blessed therefore is he who sees such usury on his principal; blessed too is he who beholds the fruit of his work; blessed again is he “who builds upon the foundation of faith, gold, silver, precious stones.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For they shall suffer loss, but shall be saved, as by fire.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 11, 12, 13, 15.
Read the whole comment“Now they should build on it, “gold, silver, and precious stones;” and should have nothing to fear from either fire: not only that which is to consume the ungodly for ever, but also that which is to purge those who are to escape through the fire.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment“But if any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 11–15.
Read the whole comment“Chapter 68.—The True Sense of the Passage (I Cor. III. 11–15) About Those Who are Saved, Yet So as by Fire.” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But all those who ‘call their lands by their own names,’ and have wood, and hay, and stubble in their thoughts; such as these, since they are strangers to difficulties, become aliens from the kingdom of heaven.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 3:12.)” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
““If any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble.” ( 1 Cor. iii. 12.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“We know, too, that on the foundation of Christ which Paul the master builder has laid, some build up gold, silver, and precious stones; others, on the contrary, hay, wood, and stubble.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 10–12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For, first of all, he must, like silver or gold, though in general circulation in all kinds of seasons and affairs, never ring false or alloyed, or give token of any inferior matter, needing further refinement in the fire; or else, the wider his rule, the greater evil he will be.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment“…virtue, living in the Spirit, walking in the Spirit, drawing your knowledge from Him, building upon the foundation of the faith, not wood or hay or stubble, weak materials and easily spent when the fire shall try our works or destroy them; but gold, silver, precious stones, which remain and stand.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment“Perhaps in it they will be baptized with Fire, in that last Baptism which is more painful and longer, which devours wood like grass, and consumes the stubble of every evil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12–19.
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Aphrahat
“And again, in what I said with regard to the building, it was in no strange fashion that I spoke, but the blessed Apostle wrote in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, saying;—I as a wise master-builder have laid the foundation, but every one buildeth on it.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 10, 12, sqq.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And another buildeth on it gold and silver, precious stones.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 10–13.
Read the whole comment“And as to him who has hands it is natural to grasp, and to him who has sound eyes to see the light; so it is the natural prerogative of him who has received faith to apprehend knowledge, if he desires, on “the foundation” laid, to work, and build up “gold, silver, precious stones.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.17.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.70.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.70.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.70.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.17.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.17.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.6.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.15.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.17.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.21.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 14:28–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 14:28–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 14:28–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 14:28–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 14:28–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.70.