Common - I Corinthians - 3

3:1  But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.

3:2  I gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,

3:3  for you are still carnal. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking like mere men?

3:4  For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

3:5  What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord assigned to each one.

3:6  I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

3:7  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

3:8  Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

3:9  For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

3:10  According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

3:11  For no other foundation can any one lay than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

3:12  Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

3:13  each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.

3:14  If any man’s work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward.

3:15  If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

3:16  Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

3:17  If any one destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are.

3:18  Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become a fool so that he may become wise.

3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness";

3:20  and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

3:21  So then let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,

3:22  whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future; all belong to you,

3:23  and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.