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1 Corinthians 3

(CLV) 1 Corinthians 3

1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshy, as to minors in Christ. 2 Milk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Nay, still, not even now are you able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man? 4 For whenever anyone may be saying, "I, indeed, am of Paul", yet another, "I, of Apollos", will he not be fleshly? 5 What, then, is Apollos? Now what is Paul? Servants are they, through whom you believe, and as the Lord gives to each. 6 I plant, Apollos irrigates, but God makes it grow up. 7 So that, neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is irrigating, but God Who makes it grow up. 8 Now he who is planting and he who is irrigating are for one thing. Yet each will be getting his own wages according to his own toil. 9 For God's fellow workers are we. God's farm, God's building, are you. 10 According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it. 11 For other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone is building on this foundation gold and silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, 13 each one's work will become apparent, for the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire. And the fire, it will be testing each one's work - what kind it is. 14 If anyone's work will be remaining which he builds on it, he will get wages. 15 If anyone's work shall be burned up, he will forfeit it, yet he shall be saved, yet thus, as through fire. 16 Are you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you? 17 If anyone is corrupting the temple of God, God will be corrupting him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are. 18 Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he may be becoming wise, 19 for the wisdom of this world is stupidity with God. For it is written, "He is clutching the wise in their craftiness." 20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain." 21 So that, let no one be boasting in men, for all is yours, 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or that which is impending - all is yours, 23 yet you are Christ's, yet Christ is God's.

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