1 Corinthians — Chapter 3

¹Brothers, I couldn`t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

²I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren`t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

³for 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?

⁴For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren`t you fleshly?

⁵Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

⁶I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

⁷So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

⁹For we are God`s fellow workers. You are God`s farming, God`s building.

¹⁰According 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.

¹¹For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹²But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

¹³each 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.

¹⁴If any man`s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

¹⁵If any man`s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

¹⁶Don`t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God`s Spirit lives in you?

¹⁷If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God`s temple is holy, which you are.

¹⁸Let 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.

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

²⁰And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

²¹Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

²²whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

²³and you are Christ`s, and Christ is God`s.