1 Corinthians 3

¹And I, brothers and sisters, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly ones, as to infants in Christ.

²I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it, and even now you are still not able.

³for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?

⁴For whenever anyone says, 'I am of Paul,' and another, 'I am of Apollos,' are you not merely human beings?

⁵What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, each as the Lord gave.

⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God was making it grow.

⁷So then neither the one planting is anything, nor the one watering, but only God who gives the growth.

⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are one, yet each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

⁹For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

¹⁰According to the grace of God given to me, as a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

¹¹For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹²Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

¹³each one's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will test what sort of work each one's is.

¹⁴If anyone's work which he built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

¹⁵If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, yet he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁷If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

¹⁸Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, "He who catches the wise in their craftiness"

²⁰and again: 'The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.'

²¹So then, let no one boast in men; for all things are yours,

²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come — all are yours,

²³and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.