Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3

77 catchwords818 parallels

1 Corinthians 3 . 1 , Milk is fit for children; 1 Corinthians 3 . 3 , Strife and division , arguments of a fleshly mind; 1 Corinthians 3 . 7 , He that planteth and he that watereth , are nothing; 1 Corinthians 3 . 9 , The ministers are God’s fellow-workmen; 1 Corinthians 3 . 11 , Christ the only foundation; 1 Corinthians 3 . 16 , Men the temples of God , which must be kept holy; 1 Corinthians 3 . 19 , The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:1 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:2

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 3:2 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:3

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?

1 Corinthians 3:3 · BSB

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divisions or , factions

as men Gr. according to man

1 Corinthians 3:4

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

1 Corinthians 3:4 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

1 Corinthians 3:5 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

1 Corinthians 3:6 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

1 Corinthians 3:7 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:8

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3:8 · BSB

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and every19 parallels

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1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3:9 · BSB

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ye are God's20 parallels

ye are God's building18 parallels

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husbandry or , tillage

1 Corinthians 3:10

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.

1 Corinthians 3:10 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:11

For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:11 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:12

If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

1 Corinthians 3:12 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:13

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.

1 Corinthians 3:13 · BSB

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Gr. is revealed

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1 Corinthians 3:14

If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3:14 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:15

If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

1 Corinthians 3:15 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 3:17 · BSB

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defile or

1 Corinthians 3:18

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.

1 Corinthians 3:18 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

1 Corinthians 3:19 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

1 Corinthians 3:20 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:21

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

1 Corinthians 3:21 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:22

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,

1 Corinthians 3:22 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 3:23

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

1 Corinthians 3:23 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web14 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations 1 Corinthians 3:19 → Job 5:13, 1 Corinthians 3:20 → Psalm 94:11
Echoes 1 Corinthians 3:11 → Isaiah 28:16
Trajectories
Camp of Israel (Sacred Geography), Cherubim (Glorified Humanity), Eden as Temple (Original Sanctuary), Feast of Tabernacles (Dwelling with God), Glory-Cloud (Divine Presence), Holy Places (Access to God's Presence), Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom), Temple Ecclesiology (Church as God's Dwelling), Zerubbabel (Royal Seed Rebuilding)
Chiasms
Shaped 1 Corinthians 02:1–03:1, 1 Corinthians 03:1–23
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