1 Corinthians 3
3
Fellow Servants of God
1#Ro 7:14; 1Co 2:14–15Brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to worldly, even as to babes in Christ. 2#Jn 16:12; 1Pe 2:2I have fed you with milk and not with solid food. For to this day you were not able to endure it. Nor are you able now, 3#1Co 1:11; 11:18for you are still worldly. Since there is envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and behaving as mere men? 4#1Co 1:12For while one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not worldly?
5#2Co 6:4; 1Co 3:10Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one? 6#Ac 18:4–11; 1Co 9:1I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7#Gal 6:3So then neither is he who plants nor he who waters anything, but God who gives the increase. 8#Ps 62:12; Mt 16:27Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9#2Co 6:1; Eph 2:20–22For we are laborers together with God: You are God’s vineyard; you are God’s building.
10#Ro 12:3; 15:20According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. Now let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11#Eph 2:20; Isa 28:16; Mt 16:18For no one can lay another foundation than that which was laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble, 13#1Co 4:5; 2Th 1:7–10each one’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done. 14#1Co 3:8; 4:5If anyone’s work which he has built on the foundation endures, he will receive a reward. 15#Jude 1:23If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss. But he himself will be saved, still going through the fire.
16#1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy. And you are His temple.
18#Isa 5:21; Gal 6:3Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. 19#Job 5:13For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness,”#Job 5:13. 20#Ps 94:11and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”#Ps 94:11. 21#1Co 4:6; Ro 8:32Therefore 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 to come, all are yours, 23#2Co 10:7; Gal 3:29and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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1 Corinthians 3
3
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; but God has given the increase. 7So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God 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 are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building. 10According to the grace of God 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 of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17If any one corrupt the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God 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 with God; 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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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.