1 Corinthians 3
1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
But I, my friends, could not speak to you as people with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded – mere infants in the faith of Christ.
2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not then able to take it. No, and even now you are not able; you are still worldly.
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?
While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?
4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
When one says ‘I follow Paul,’ and another ‘I follow Apollos,’ aren’t you like other people?
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.
What, I ask, is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.
6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Therefore neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters, counts for anything, but only God who causes the growth.
8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
In this the person who plants and the person who waters are one; yet each will receive their own reward in proportion to their own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.
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.
In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master; but someone else is now building on it. Let everyone take care how they build;
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
for no one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid – Jesus Christ.
12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
Whatever is used by those who build on this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
13 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.
the quality of each man’s work will become known, for the day will make it plain; because that day is to be ushered in with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of every man’s work.
14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
If anyone’s work, which they have built on that foundation, still remains, they will gain a reward.
15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.
16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Don’t you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
If any one destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy them; for the Temple of God is sacred, and so also are you.
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. (aiōn g165)
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, they are wise, they should become a ‘fool,’ that they may become wise. (aiōn g165)
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
For in God’s sight this world’s wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of – ‘One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,’
20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
And it says again – ‘The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.’
21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
Therefore let no one boast about people; for all things are yours –
22 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,
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future – all things are yours!
23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
But you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.
