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1 Corinthians 3

Good News Translation GNT

1 As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

2 I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it,

3 because you still live as the people of this world live. When there is jealousy among you and you quarrel with one another, doesn't this prove that you belong to this world, living by its standards?

4 When one of you says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos" - aren't you acting like worldly people?

5 After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? We are simply God's servants, by whom you were led to believe. Each one of us does the work which the Lord gave him to do:

6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God who made the plant grow.

7 The one who plants and the one who waters really do not matter. It is God who matters, because he makes the plant grow.

8 There is no difference between the one who plants and the one who waters; God will reward each one according to the work each has done.

9 For we are partners working together for God, and you are God's field. You are also God's building.

10 Using the gift that God gave me, I did the work of an expert builder and laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each of you must be careful how you build.

11 For God has already placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid.

12 Some will use gold or silver or precious stones in building on the foundation; others will use wood or grass or straw.

13 And the quality of each person's work will be seen when the Day of Christ exposes it. For on that Day fire will reveal everyone's work; the fire will test it and show its real quality.

14 If what was built on the foundation survives the fire, the builder will receive a reward.

15 But if your work is burnt up, then you will lose it; but you yourself will be saved, as if you had escaped through the fire.

16 Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

17 God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.

18 You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.

19 For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";

20 and another scripture says, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."

21 No one, then, should boast about what human beings can do. Actually everything belongs to you:

22 Paul, Apollos, and Peter; this world, life and death, the present and the future - all these are yours,

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

World English Bible WEB

1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

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?

4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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.

11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

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.

14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

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.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.