1 Corinthians 3
- And I, brethren, could not speak unto you
as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
- I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not
able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
- For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- For while one saith, I am of Paul; and
another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
- Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
- I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
gave the increase.
- So then neither is he that planteth any
thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
- Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labour.
- For we are labourers together with God: ye
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
- According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
- For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
Jesus Christ.
- Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;
- Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare
it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's
work of what sort it is.
- If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
- If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
- Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
- For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts
of the wise, that they are vain.
- Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
- Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present,
or things to come; all are yours;
- And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.