“"For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building." Seest thou how to them also he hath assigned no small work, having before laid it down that the whole is of God? For since he is always persuading them to obey those that have the rule over them, on this account he abstains from making very lig…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on 1 Corinthians 8
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9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
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7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
— 1 Corinthians 3:9 —
10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.