1 Corinthians 3
1I ALSO, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
2I fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able.
3For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?
4For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?
6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase.
8And he that plants and he that waters are one; and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, God's building.
10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation, and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon.
11For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12And if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13the work of each one will be made manifest; for the day will show it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will prove of what sort is each one's work.
14If any one's work which he built thereon remains, he will receive reward.
15If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.
16Know ye not that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17If any one defiles[3:17] the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, the which are ye.
18Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: He that takes the wise in their craftiness.
20And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, That they are vain.
21So then, let no one glory 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;
23and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.