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Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to
fleshly, as to babies in
Christ.
{3:2} I fed you with
milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
{3:3} for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is
jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
{3:4} For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow
Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
{3:5} Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
{3:6} I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
{3:7} So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
{3:8} Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
{3:9} For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
{3:10} According to the
grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
{3:11} For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is
Jesus Christ.
{3:12} But if anyone builds on the foundation with
gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
{3:13} each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in
fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.
{3:14} If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
{3:15} If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
{3:16} Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
{3:17} If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
{3:18} Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
{3:19} For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
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{3:20} And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."
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{3:21} Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
{3:22} whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
{3:23} and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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