Carpenter

Jesus was an expert carpenter and cabinetmaker. He also was a boatbuilder 126:1.1 129:1.2-3

Jesus made use of his first and only parable having to do with his own trade, the parable of the foolish: “Do not make the mistake of the foolish carpenter who wastes valuable time squaring, measuring, and smoothing his worm-eaten and inwardly rotting timber and then, when he has thus bestowed all of his labor upon the unsound beam, must reject it as unfit to enter into the foundations of the building which he would construct to withstand the assaults of time and storm” 156:5.2

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Build on good foundation 156:5.2 — Mt 7:24-27; Lk 6:47-49.
• Fruits of the spirit 156:5.2 — Ga 5:22-23; Eph 5:9.
• Born of the spirit 156:5.2 — Jn 3:3-8.
• Taught by the spirit 156:5.2 — Is 2:3; Is 54:13; Mic 4:2; Jn 6:45; 1 Th 4:9; 1 Jn 2:27.
• Led by the spirit 156:5.2 — Ro 8:14; Ga 5:18.