1 Corinthians 3:1-23 CSB

[1] For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. [2] I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, [3] because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans? [4] For whenever someone says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not acting like mere humans? [5] What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. [6] I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. [7] So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. [8] Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. [9] For we are God's coworkers. You are God's field, God's building. [10] According to God's grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it. [11] For no one can lay any foundation other than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ. [12] If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, [13] each one's work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one's work. [14] If anyone's work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. [15] If anyone's work is burned up, he will experience loss, but he himself will be saved-but only as through fire. [16] Don't you yourselves know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you? [17] If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, and that is what you are. [18] Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise. [19] For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness; [20] and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are futile. [21] So let no one boast in human leaders, for everything is yours- [22] whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come-everything is yours, [23] and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

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