Chapter 3
1 Brothers, I couldn’t 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 weren’t yet ready . Indeed , you aren’t ready even now ,
3 for you are still fleshly . For insofar as there is jealousy , strife , and factions amongst you , aren’t you fleshly , and don’t you walk in the ways of men ?
4 For when one says , " I follow Paul ," and another , " I follow Apollos," aren’t you fleshly?
5 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 . Apollos watered . But God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything , nor he who waters , but God who gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same , but each will receive his own reward according to his own labour .
9 For we are God ’s fellow workers . You are God ’s farming, 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 .
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid , which is Jesus Christ .
12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with 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 .
14 If any man ’s work remains which he built on it , he will receive a reward .
15 If any man ’s work is burnt, he will suffer loss , but he himself will be saved , but as through fire .
16 Don’ t you know that you are God ’s temple and that God ’s Spirit lives in you ?
17 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 anyone thinks that he is wise amongst you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise .
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God . For it is written , " He has taken the wise in their craftiness ."
20 And again , " The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise , that it is worthless ."
21 Therefore let no one boast in men . 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 ,
23 and you are Christ ’s, and Christ is God ’s.