3:1 | And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. |
3:2 | I have fed you with milk and not with solid food; because until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; |
3:3 | because you are still carnal. Because where there is envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and walk like men? |
3:4 | Because when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal? |
3:5 | Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each person? |
3:6 | I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. |
3:7 | So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. |
3:8 | Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. |
3:9 | Because, we are God's coworkers; you are God's field, you are God's building. |
3:10 | According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. |
3:11 | Because no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
3:12 | Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, |
3:13 | each one's work will be revealed; because the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. |
3:14 | If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. |
3:15 | If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. |
3:16 | Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? |
3:17 | If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. Because the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. |
3:18 | Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may be wise. |
3:19 | Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. Because it is written, "He traps the wise in their own craftiness"; |
3:20 | and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain." |
3:21 | Therefore let no one boast in men. Because all things are yours: |
3:22 | whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all are yours. |
3:23 | And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. |