1 Corinthians 3
1 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people led by the Spirit, but as people ruled by the flesh—as infants in Christ.
2 I fed you milk rather than solid food, because you were not ready for it. Even now, you still are not ready.
3 You are still ruled by the flesh. Since jealousy and quarrels exist among you, does that not show you are fleshly and living by ordinary human standards?
4 When one person says, “I belong to Paul,” and another says, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not acting like mere human beings?
5 What, then, is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you came to believe, each serving as the Lord assigned.
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God was making it grow.
7 So the one who plants and the one who waters count for nothing; God, who makes it grow, is the one who matters.
8 The planter and the waterer share one purpose, and each will receive a reward suited to that person’s own labor.
9 We work together in God’s service; you are God’s field and God’s building.
10 By God’s grace given to me, I laid a foundation as a skilled builder, and someone else is building on it. Each person must take care how they build.
11 No one can lay a different foundation from the one already in place, which is Jesus Christ.
12 A person may build on that foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw.
13 Everyone’s work will be brought into the open. The Day will make it clear, for it will be disclosed by fire, and the fire will test what kind of work each person has done.
14 If the work someone built on the foundation stands, that person will receive a reward.
15 If someone’s work burns up, that person will suffer loss. Yet the person will be saved, though only as one escaping through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives among you?
17 If anyone ruins God’s temple, God will ruin that person. God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18 Let no one fool themselves. If anyone among you considers themselves wise by this world’s standards, let them become a fool so they may become wise.
19 The wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. Scripture says, “He catches the wise in their own cleverness.”
20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are empty.”
21 So let no one boast about people, because everything belongs to you.
22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, what is here now, and what is yet to come—all of it belongs to you.
23 You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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