1 Corinthians 3:14-23 (New International Version)
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If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.1
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If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.2
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Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple3 and that God's Spirit lives in you?4
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If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
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Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise5 by the standards of this age,6 he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness7 in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"a;8
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and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."b9
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So then, no more boasting about men!10 All things are yours,11
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whether Paul or Apollos12 or Cephasc13 or the world or life or death or the present or the future14--all are yours,
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and you are of Christ,15 and Christ is of God.
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