First Corinthians 3

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¹And I, brothers, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as to fleshly people, as to little children in Christ.

²I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and even now you are not yet ready.

³For you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife exist among you, are you not living according to the flesh, and are you not walking by human standards?

⁴For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” are you not living as human beings?

⁵Who then is Apollos? Who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, to each of whom the Lord gave tasks.

⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

⁷So then, neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything. But it is God who gives the growth.

⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own wages according to his own labor.

⁹For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's garden, God's building.

¹⁰According to the grace of God that was given to me as a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation and another is building on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

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

¹²Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

¹³his work will be revealed, for the daylight will reveal it. For it will be revealed in fire. The fire will test the quality of what each one had done.

¹⁴If anyone's work remains, he will receive a reward;

¹⁵but if anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as though escaping through fire.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

¹⁷If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and so are you.

¹⁸Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, 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 catches the wise in their craftiness.”

²⁰And again, “The Lord knows that the reasoning of the wise is futile.”

²¹For this reason, let no one boast in men. 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 things are yours,

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