1 Corinthians, Chapter 3

1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.    2. I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.    3. For you are yet carnal: for in that there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?    4. For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?    5. Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?    6. I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.    7. So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase.    8. Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and everyone shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.    9. For we are laborers together with God: you are God's cultivated field, you are God's building.    10. According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let everyone be careful how he builds on it.    11. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.    12. Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;    13. Everyone's work shall be made apparent: for the day shall make it known, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test everyone's work of what sort it is.    14. If anyone's work endures which he has built on it, he shall receive a reward.    15. If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet as if by fire.    16. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?    17. If anyone defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.    18. Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.    19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.    20. And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.    21. Therefore let no one find glory 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.