1 Corinthians 3
1 But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded — mere infants in the Faith of Christ.
Brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
2 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.
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not yet ready. Indeed, you are not ready even now,
3 While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are not you fleshly, and do not you walk in the ways of men?
4 When one says ‘I follow Paul,’ and another ‘I follow Apollos,’ are not you like other men?
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are not you fleshly?
5 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.
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
6 I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
7 Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 In this the man who plants and the man who waters are one; yet each will receive his own reward in proportion to his own labour.
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
10 In fulfilment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skilful master-builder; but another man is now building upon it. Let every one take care how he builds;
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 man be careful how he builds on it.
11 for no man can lay any other foundation than the one already laid — Jesus Christ.
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Whatever is used by those who build upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
13 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.
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 If any man’s work, which he has built upon that foundation, still remains, he will gain a reward.
If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burnt up, he will suffer loss; though he himself will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.
If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Do not you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?
Do not you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17 If any one destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy him; for the Temple of God is sacred, and so also are you.
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a ‘fool,’ that he may become wise. (aiōn g165)
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this age (aiōn g165), let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
19 For in God’s sight this world’s wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of — ‘One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,’
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
20 And it says again — ‘The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.’
And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
21 Therefore let no one boast about men; for all things are yours —
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Kephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future — all things are yours!
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
23 But you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
