Noyes - I Corinthians - 3

3:1  I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

3:2  I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;

3:3  for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?

3:4  For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?

3:5  Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?

3:6  I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

3:7  So then, neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is anything, but God that giveth the growth.

3:8  And he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

3:9  For we are God’s fellow-laborers; ye are God’s field, ye are God’s building.

3:10  According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful master-builder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

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

3:12  But if any one build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

3:13  the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every one’s work is.

3:14  If the work which any one built thereon remaineth, he will receive reward;

3:15  if any one’s work shall be burned up, he will lose the reward; but he will be saved himself, yet as one escaping through fire.

3:16  Know ye not, that ye are God’s temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

3:17  If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

3:18  Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: "He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;"

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

3:21  So then let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

3:22  whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come,—all are yours;

3:23  and ye are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.