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Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 3:11 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 3:11Whatever storms come, your standing doesn’t rest on your own performance or feelings. It rests on a foundation that cannot be shaken, because it isn’t yours to maintain.
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“having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,”
Ephesians 2:20 · NASB1995“Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,”
2 Corinthians 1:21 · NASB1995“No man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11), and Ephesians 2:20 pictures the whole household of God “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone.” Second Corinthians 1:21 adds that God Himself is the one who “establishes us” in Christ — the foundation is not something you maintain, but something He laid and keeps.
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Read 1 Corinthians 3 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.