1 Cor. 3:1
1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is
Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but
God gave the increase. 7 So then
neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the
increase. 8 Now he who plants and he
who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his
own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers;
you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God
which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and
another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
11 For no other foundation can
anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds on this
foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13 each one’s work will become
clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the
fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
14 If anyone’s work which he has
built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work is burned, he
will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple
you are.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If
anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may
become wise. 19 For the wisdom of
this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise
in their own craftiness”;[a]
20 and again, “The LORD knows the
thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”[b]
21 Therefore let no one boast in
men. For all things are yours: 22
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things
present or things to come—all are yours. 23
And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.