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1 Corinthians 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ,

2 capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more.

3 As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way?

4 When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile?

5 Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us - servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment.

6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow.

7 It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow.

8 Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages.

9 What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working.

10 Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation!

11 Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ.

12 Take particular care in picking out your building materials.

13 Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing.

14 If your work passes inspection, fine;

15 if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive - but just barely.

16 You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?

17 No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred - and you, remember, are the temple.

18 Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times.

19 Be God's fool - that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic.

20 The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls.

21 I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift -

22 Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future - all of it is yours,

23 and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 et ego fratres non potui vobis loqui quasi spiritalibus sed quasi carnalibus tamquam parvulis in Christo

2 lac vobis potum dedi non escam nondum enim poteratis sed ne nunc quidem potestis adhuc enim estis carnales

3 cum enim sit inter vos zelus et contentio nonne carnales estis et secundum hominem ambulatis

4 cum enim quis dicit ego quidem sum Pauli alius autem ego Apollo nonne homines estis quid igitur est Apollo quid vero Paulus

5 ministri eius cui credidistis et unicuique sicut Dominus dedit

6 ego plantavi Apollo rigavit sed Deus incrementum dedit

7 itaque neque qui plantat est aliquid neque qui rigat sed qui incrementum dat Deus

8 qui plantat autem et qui rigat unum sunt unusquisque autem propriam mercedem accipiet secundum suum laborem

9 Dei enim sumus adiutores Dei agricultura estis Dei aedificatio estis

10 secundum gratiam Dei quae data est mihi ut sapiens architectus fundamentum posui alius autem superaedificat unusquisque autem videat quomodo superaedificet

11 fundamentum enim aliud nemo potest ponere praeter id quod positum est qui est Christus Iesus

12 si quis autem superaedificat supra fundamentum hoc aurum argentum lapides pretiosos ligna faenum stipulam

13 uniuscuiusque opus manifestum erit dies enim declarabit quia in igne revelabitur et uniuscuiusque opus quale sit ignis probabit

14 si cuius opus manserit quod superaedificavit mercedem accipiet

15 si cuius opus arserit detrimentum patietur ipse autem salvus erit sic tamen quasi per ignem

16 nescitis quia templum Dei estis et Spiritus Dei habitat in vobis

17 si quis autem templum Dei violaverit disperdet illum Deus templum enim Dei sanctum est quod estis vos

18 nemo se seducat si quis videtur inter vos sapiens esse in hoc saeculo stultus fiat ut sit sapiens

19 sapientia enim huius mundi stultitia est apud Deum scriptum est enim conprehendam sapientes in astutia eorum

20 et iterum Dominus novit cogitationes sapientium quoniam vanae sunt

21 itaque nemo glorietur in hominibus omnia enim vestra sunt

22 sive Paulus sive Apollo sive Cephas sive mundus sive vita sive mors sive praesentia sive futura omnia enim vestra sunt

23 vos autem Christi Christus autem Dei