1 Corinthians 3 DBY
Summary: Paul tells the Corinthians he could not address them as spiritual people but as infants in Christ, since their jealousy and strife prove they are still of the flesh, merely human in their loyalty to Paul or Apollos. He clarifies that he and Apollos are only servants through whom they believed — one planted, another watered, but God alone gives the growth. Describing himself as a skilled master builder who laid the foundation of Jesus Christ, Paul warns that each person's work will be tested by fire on the last day, and reminds them that they, together, are God's temple, in which God's Spirit dwells, concluding that "all things are yours... and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's" (v. 21-23).
1And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.
2I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;
3for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
4For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?
5Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.
6I have planted; Apollos watered; butGod has given the increase.
7So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; butGod the giver of the increase.
8But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9For we areGod's fellow-workmen; ye areGod's husbandry,God's building.
10According to the grace ofGod which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.
11For other foundation can no man lay besides that which [is] laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
13the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.
14If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.
15If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire.
16Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple ofGod, and [that] the Spirit ofGod dwells in you?
17If any one corrupt the temple ofGod, him shallGod destroy; for the temple ofGod is holy, and such are ye.
18Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness withGod; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.
20And again, [The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
21So that 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 coming, all are yours;
23and ye [are] Christ's, and Christ [is]God's.
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