3:1 |
Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. |
3:2 |
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, |
3:3 |
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? |
3:4 |
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? |
3:5 |
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? |
3:6 |
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. |
3:7 |
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. |
3:8 |
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. |
3:9 |
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. |
3:10 |
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. |
3:11 |
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
3:12 |
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; |
3:13 |
each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. |
3:14 |
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. |
3:15 |
If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. |
3:16 |
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? |
3:17 |
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are. |
3:18 |
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. |
3:19 |
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." { Job 5:13 } |
3:20 |
And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless." { Psalm 94:11 } |
3:21 |
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, |
3:22 |
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, |
3:23 |
and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. |