1 Corinthians 3:9

Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third

I answered and said to her, "When, then, will they be useful for the building, Lady? "When the riches that now seduce them have been circumscribed, then will they be of use to God.[25]

Origen Against Celsus Book IV

And in the next place, as we must not stop with rooting out and pulling down the hindrances which have just been mentioned, but must, in room of what has been rooted out, plant the plants of "God's husbandry; "[4]