1 Corinthians 3

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1. 1Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as spiritual people, but as worldly, like infants in Christ.
2. 2I fed you with milk, not with solid food, because until now you were not able to bear it, and even now you are still not able.
3. 3You are still carnal. For as long as there is jealousy, fighting, and division among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere humans?
4. 4When one of you says, 'I follow Paul,' and another says, 'I follow Apollos,' aren't you being worldly?
5. 5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one.
6. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God is the one who made it grow.
7. 7So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but it is God who gives the growth.
8. 8The one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive their own reward according to their own work.
9. 9We are fellow workers serving God. You are God's field, God's building.
10. 10By the grace God gave me, I laid a foundation like a skilled master builder, and someone else is building on it. But everyone who builds on it should be very careful how they build.
11. 11No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12. 12Now someone might build on that foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw.
13. 13Everyone's work will be revealed, for the day will make it known. It will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work.
14. 14If the work that someone has built remains, that person will receive a reward.
15. 15If anyone's work is burned, they will suffer loss, but they themselves will be saved, yet only as through fire.
16. 16Don't you realize that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
17. 17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy them. Because God's temple is holy — and that temple is you.
18. 18Don't fool yourselves. If any of you think you're wise by this world's standards, you need to become a "fool" so you can become truly wise.
19. 19The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As Scripture says, "He catches the wise in their own cleverness."
20. 20And again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."
21. 21Therefore, no one should boast in people. For all things are yours;
22. 22Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, the future — it's all yours.
23. 23And you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.