Chapter 3

  Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.  

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  I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,  

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  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?  

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  For when one says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' aren't you fleshly?  

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  Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?  

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  I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.  

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  So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.  

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  Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.  

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  For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.  

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  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.  

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  For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.  

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  But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;  

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  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.  

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  If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.  

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  If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.  

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  Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?  

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  If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.  

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  Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.  

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  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, 'He has taken the wise in their craftiness.'  

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  And again, 'The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.'  

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  Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,  

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  whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,  

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  and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.  

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