Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, <em>even</em> as unto babes in Christ.
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Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with <em>solid</em> food, for until now ye were not able <em>to bear it</em>, neither yet now are ye able.
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I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas <em>there is</em> among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?
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You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?
4 For while one says, I am of Paul, and another, I <em>am</em> of Apollos, are ye not carnal?
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For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?
5 Who then is Paul? and who <em>is</em> Apollos? but servants by whom ye believed, each one according <em>to that which</em> the Lord gave.
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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
6 I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
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I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.
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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.
9 For we are labourers together with God; ye are God’s husbandry, <em>ye are</em> God’s building.
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For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one see how the building is built.
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
11 For no one can lay another foundation than that laid, which is Jesus the Christ.
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For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.
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their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
14 If the work of anyone abides which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
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If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
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If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and <em>that</em> the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy that one; for the temple of God is holy, which <em>temple</em> ye are.
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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
18 Let no one deceive <em>himself</em>. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.
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Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness” ;
20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
21 Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
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So then, no more boasting about human leaders! 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;
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
23 and ye are Christ’s; and Christ <em>is</em> God’s.
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and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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