1 Corinthians 3
1 My brothers and sisters, I couldn't talk with you as spiritual believers, but as worldly people—like baby Christians.
And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Meshikha.
2 I gave you milk—I couldn't give you solid food to eat, because you weren't ready for it.
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,
3 Even now you're not ready for it, because you're still worldly. Since you're still jealous and argumentative, doesn't that show you're worldly, behaving just like ordinary people do?
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and living by human standards?
4 When one of you says, “I follow Paul,” while another says, “I follow Apollos,” doesn't that show you're being so very human?
For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not merely human?
5 Who is Apollos, anyway? And who is Paul? We're just servants through whom you believed. Each of us does the work God gave us to do.
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him.
6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering—but it was God who made you grow!
I planted. Apollos watered. But God made it grow.
7 So the one who does the planting doesn't count for anything, any more than the one who does the watering. The only one who matters is God who is growing you!
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow.
8 The one planting and the one watering have the same goal, and both will be rewarded according to what they've done.
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 We are workers together with God—and you are God's field, his building.
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
10 Through the grace of God that he gave to me, I laid down the foundation like a skilled building supervisor. Now someone else is building on it. Whoever does the building needs to watch what they're doing.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds on it.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than what's already laid—that is Jesus Christ.
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Yeshua Meshikha.
12 Those who build on that foundation may use gold, silver, precious stone, wood, hay, or straw—
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw;
13 but whatever is used to build with will be exposed. For on the Day of Judgment fire will reveal it and test it. Everyone's work will be shown for what it is.
each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.
14 Those whose building survives will be rewarded.
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 Those whose building is burned up will lose out. They will still be saved, but it will be like passing through fire!
If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Don't you know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Rukha lives in you?
17 Anyone who destroys God's temple will be destroyed by God, for God's temple is holy, and you are the temple.
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
18 Don't deceive yourselves. If there's anyone of you who thinks they're worldly wise, they should become fools so they can become truly wise! (aiōn g165)
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. (aiōn g165)
19 This world's wisdom is plain foolishness to God. As Scripture says, “He uses the cleverness of the wise to catch them out,”
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He traps the wise in their craftiness."
20 and “The Lord knows the arguments of the wise are pointless.”
And again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
21 So don't boast about people. For you have everything,
Therefore let no one boast about people. For all things are yours,
22 whether it's Paul or Apollos or Peter—or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future. You have everything—
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Kipha, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
and you are Meshikha's, and Meshikha is God's.
