OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 3

3:1  Achim b'Moshiach, I was not able to speak to you as to men of hitkhadeshut and ruchaniyut; I had to speak to you as anshei haBasar, as olalim b'Moshiach.

3:2  Chalav (milk) I gave you to drink, not solid ma'achal (food), for you were not yet able to receive it. but neither yet are you able now.

3:3  For still you are anshei haBasar (men of the Basar, immature and carnally minded believers). For als (since) there is still kinah (jealousy) and merivah (strife) among you [1:11], are you not anshei haBasar, by the standards of Bnei Adam?

3:4  For, whenever anyone says, "I am of Sha'ul," but another, "I am of Apollos," are you not as anshei shechichim (ordinary men)?

3:5  What then is Apollos? And what is Sha'ul? Klei kodesh ministers of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, through whom you came to emunah, even as to each one a task was given by Adoneinu.

3:6  I planted, Apollos watered, but Hashem gave the increase.

3:7  Therefore, neither is the one planting anything nor the one watering, but it is the One giving the increase--Hashem!

3:8  Now the one planting and the one watering are be'ichud (united), and, each one will receive his own sachar (reward) according to his own amal (toil). [Tehillim 18:20; 62:12]

3:9  For we are fellow po'alim (workers) of Hashem, you are the sadeh Hashem (field of G-d), you are Hashem's binyan (building). [Yeshayah 61:3]

3:10  According to the Chen v'Chesed Hashem having been given to me as a bannai chacham (wise builder), I laid a yesod (foundation), and another builds on it. But, let each one beware how he builds on it.

3:11  For no other yesod other than the one that has been laid can be laid: Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. [Yeshayah 28:16]

3:12  Now if anyone builds on the yesod with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble--

3:13  the ma'aseh (work) of each bannai will become evident, for, haYom [Yom haDin] will make it hitgalut, because by Aish (fire) it is revealed; and the Aish (Fire) itself will test the quality of each one's ma'aseh. [Bamidbar 31:22,23; Yirmeyah 23:28,29; Malachi 3:3]

3:14  If anyone's ma'asei he built on the yesod will survive (Joh.15:16), a sachar (reward--Bereshis 15:1) he will receive;

3:15  if anyone's ma'aseh will be consumed, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved (Eph.2:8-9), yet so as through Aish (fire).

3:16  Do you not have da'as that you are a Heikhal Hashem and the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem dwells in you?

3:17  If anyone attempts to cause churban to the Heikhal Hashem, G-d will destroy this man, for the Heikhal Hashem is kadosh. and you are that Heikhal.

3:18  Let no one deceive himself; if anyone presumes to be chacham among you in Olam Hazeh, let him become a yold (fool), that he may become chacham. [Yeshayah 5:21]

3:19  For, the chochmah (wisdom) of Olam Hazeh is sichlut (foolishness) with Hashem. For it has been written, LOCHED CHACHAMIM BE'ARMAM ("He catches the wise in their own craftiness" IYOV 5:13).

3:20  And again, HASHEM YODE'A MACHSH'VOT ADAM KI HEMAH HEVEL ("The L-rd knows the thoughts of the wise that they are empty vanity-- TEHILLIM 94:11). [Tehillim 94:11]

3:21  So let no one boast in Bnei Adam: for all things belong to you,

3:22  whether Sha'ul or Apollos or Kefa, or haOlam (the world) or Chayyim (life) or Mavet (death), or things present or things coming; all things are yours,

3:23  and you are Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's and Moshiach is G-d's.