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 meat; for
you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, 3 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? 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 labor. 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 stubble;
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 burned, he will suffer loss, but
he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's
Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, 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 among 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.
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