1 Corinthians 3
1 Brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies 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 fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not yet ready. Indeed, you are not ready even now,
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 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?
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 says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are not you fleshly?
When one says “I follow Paul,” and another “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you like other people?
5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
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. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
Therefore neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters, counts for anything, but only God who causes the growth.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward 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 labour.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.
10 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.
In fulfilment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skilful master; but someone else is now building on it. Let everyone take care how they build;
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
for no one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid – Jesus Christ.
12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly 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 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.
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 any man’s work remains which he built on it, 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 any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
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 not you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives 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, which you are.
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 anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this age (aiōn g165), let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
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 with God. For it is written, “He has taken 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 the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
And it says again – “The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.”
21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For 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 things present, or things to come. All are yours,
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 are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
But you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.
