Protestantism
English
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw--
Now if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
And if any man builde on this foundation, golde, siluer, precious stones, timber, haye, or stubble,
Yf eny man bilde on this foundacion golde silver precious stones tymber haye or stoble:
And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
If any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
But if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, timbers, hay, stubble;
Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Now if anyone builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
And if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
And if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
But if any one build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
Whatever is used by those who build on this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
Whatever is used by those who build on this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
But, if anyone is building, upon the foundation—gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
Now if any man buildeth upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Whatever is used by those who build upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Catholicism
English
Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:
But if anyone builds upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble,1
- 3:12Upon this foundation: The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this foundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more perfect preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and stubble, such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such practice as is mixed with much imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his fiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately after death,) shall make manifest of what sort every man’s work has been: of which, during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For then the fire of God’s judgment shall try every man’s work. And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being found to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon the right foundation, (by living and dying in the true faith and in the state of grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as by fire; being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and stubble, which was mixed with their building.(Challoner)