1 Corinthians 3
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Rom 7.14; Heb 5.13. But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ. 2#Heb 5.12-13; 1 Pet 2.2. I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready, 3for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men? 4#1 Cor 1.12. For when one says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not merely men?
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2 Cor 6.4; Eph 3.7; Col 1.25. What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6#Acts 18.4-11,24-27; 1 Cor 1.12. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor. 9#Is 61.3; Eph 2.20-22; 1 Pet 2.5. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
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Rom 12.3; 1 Cor 15.10. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. 11#Eph 2.20. For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13#2 Thess 1.7-10. each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15#Job 23.10. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
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1 Cor 6.19; 2 Cor 6.16. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 17If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
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Is 5.21; 1 Cor 8.2; Gal 6.3. Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19#Job 5.13; 1 Cor 1.20. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20#Ps 94.11. and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21#1 Cor 4.6; Rom 8.32. So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 22#1 Cor 1.12; Rom 8.38. whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 23and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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1 Corinthians 3
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Following Men Is Wrong
1Brothers, in the past I could not talk to you as I talk to spiritual people. I had to talk to you as I would to people of the world—babies in Christ. 2The teaching I gave you was like milk, not solid food. I did this because you were not ready for solid food. And even now you are not ready. 3You are still not spiritual. You have jealousy and arguing among you. This shows that you are not spiritual. You are acting like people of the world. 4One of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos.” When you say things like this, you are acting like worldly people.
5Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do. 6I planted the seed of the teaching in you, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made the seed grow. 7So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God is important, because he is the One who makes things grow. 8The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose. And each will be rewarded for his own work. 9We are workers together for God. And you are like a farm that belongs to God.
And you are a house that belongs to God. 10Like an expert builder I built the foundation of that house. I used the gift that God gave me to do this. Others are building on that foundation. But everyone should be careful how he builds. 11The foundation has already been built. No one can build any other foundation. The foundation that has already been laid is Jesus Christ. 12Anyone can build on that foundation, using gold, silver, jewels, wood, grass, or straw. 13But the work that each person does will be clearly seen, because the Day# The day Christ will come to judge all people and take his people home to live with him. will make it plain. That Day will appear with fire, and the fire will test every man’s work. 14If the building that a man puts on the foundation still stands, he will get his reward. 15But if his building is burned up, he will suffer loss. The man will be saved, but it will be as if he escaped from a fire.
16You should know that you yourselves are God’s temple. God’s Spirit lives in you. 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him, because God’s temple is holy. You yourselves are God’s temple.
18Do not fool yourselves. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this world, he should become a fool. Then he can become truly wise, 19because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. It is written in the Scriptures, “He catches wise men in their own clever traps.”# Quotation from Job 5:13. 20It is also written in the Scriptures, “The Lord knows what people think. He knows they are just a puff of wind.”# Quotation from Psalm 94:11. 21So you should not brag about men. All things are yours: 22Paul, Apollos and Peter; the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these things are yours. 23And you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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