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1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. | C¹ | C² |
2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready, | C |
3 for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? | C |
4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? | C |
5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. | C |
6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. | C |
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. | C |
8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. | C |
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. | C |
10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds. | C |
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. | IP | C |
12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, | C |
13 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work. | C |
14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. | C |
15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. | C |
16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? | C | TT¹ | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ | TT⁶ | TT⁷ | TT⁸ |
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. | C |
18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. | C |
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” | C | IP | TT |
20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” | C | IP | TT |
21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, | C |
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, | C |
23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. | C |