1 Corinthians 3

3:1

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

3:2

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

3:3

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

3:4

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

3:5

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

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I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

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He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

3:10

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

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his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

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If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

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If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

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Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

3:20

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

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Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

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and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.