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1 Brothers and sisters, I couldn't talk to you like spiritual people but like unspiritual people, like babies in Christ.
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But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
2 I gave you milk to drink instead of solid food, because you weren't up to it yet.
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I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,
3 Now you are still not up to it because you are still unspiritual. When jealousy and fighting exist between you, aren't you unspiritual and living by human standards?
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for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?
4 When someone says, "I belong to Paul," and someone else says, "I belong to Apollos," aren't you acting like people without the Spirit?
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For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apol'los," are you not merely men?
5 After all, what is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants who helped you to believe. Each one had a role given to them by the Lord:
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What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow.
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I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
7 Because of this, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but the only one who is anything is God who makes it grow.
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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together, but each one will receive their own reward for their own labor.
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He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.
9 We are God's coworkers, and you are God's field, God's building.
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10 I laid a foundation like a wise master builder according to God's grace that was given to me, but someone else is building on top of it. Each person needs to pay attention to the way they build on it.
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According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
11 No one can lay any other foundation besides the one that is already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 So, whether someone builds on top of the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, or hay,
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Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw--
13 each one's work will be clearly shown. The day will make it clear, because it will be revealed with fire—the fire will test the quality of each one's work.
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each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
14 If anyone's work survives, they'll get a reward.
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If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
15 But if anyone's work goes up in flames, they'll lose it. However, they themselves will be saved as if they had gone through a fire.
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If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16 Don't you know that you are God's temple and God's Spirit lives in you?
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Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
17 If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person, because God's temple is holy, which is what you are.
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If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
18 Don't fool yourself. If some of you think they are worldly-wise, then they should become foolish so that they can become wise.
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Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
19 This world's wisdom is foolishness to God. As it's written, He catches the wise in their cleverness.
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For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
20 And also, The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are silly.
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and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."
21 So then, no one should brag about human beings. Everything belongs to you—
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So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,
22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things in the present, things in the future—everything belongs to you,
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whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;
23 but you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.