Parallel Bible results for "1 corinthians 3"

1 Corinthians 3

New International Reader's Version NIRV

1 Brothers and sisters, I couldn't speak to you as if you were guided by the Holy Spirit. I had to speak to you as if you were following the ways of the world. You aren't growing as Christ wants you to. You are still like babies.

2 The words I spoke to you were like milk, not like solid food. You weren't ready for solid food yet. And you still aren't ready for it.

3 You are still following the ways of the world. Some of you are jealous. Some of you argue. So aren't you following the ways of the world? Aren't you acting like ordinary human beings?

4 One of you says, "I follow Paul." Another says, "I follow Apollos." Aren't you acting like ordinary human beings?

5 After all, what is Apollos? And what is Paul? We are only people who serve. We helped you to believe. The Lord has given each of us our own work to do.

6 I planted the seed. Apollos watered it. But God made it grow.

7 So the one who plants is not important. The one who waters is not important. It is God who makes things grow. He is the One who is important.

8 The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose. The Lord will give each of us a reward for our work.

9 We work together with God. You are like God's field. You are like his building.

10 God has given me the grace to lay a foundation as a master builder. Now someone else is building on it. But each one should build carefully.

11 No one can lay any other foundation than the one that has already been laid. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

12 A person may build on it using gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay or straw.

13 But each person's work will be shown for what it is. On judgment day it will be brought to light. It will be put through fire. The fire will test how good everyone's work is.

14 If the building doesn't burn up, God will give the builder a reward for his work.

15 If the building burns up, the builder will lose everything. The builder will be saved, but only like one escaping through the flames.

16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple? God's Spirit lives in you.

17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple.

18 Don't fool yourselves. Suppose some of you think you are wise by the standards of the world. Then you should become a "fool" so that you can become wise.

19 The wisdom of this world is foolish in God's eyes. It is written, "God catches wise people in their own tricks."(Job 5:13)

20 It is also written, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise don't amount to anything."(Psalm 94:11)

21 So no more bragging about human beings! All things are yours.

22 That means Paul or Apollos or Peter or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All are yours.

23 You are joined to Christ and belong to him. And Christ is joined to God.

Wycliffe WYC

1 And I, brethren, might not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to fleshly men [but as to fleshly]; as to little children in Christ,

2 I gave to you milk to drink, not meat; for ye might not yet understand, neither ye be able to now [but neither now soothly ye be able],

3 for yet ye be fleshly. For while envy and strife is among you, whether ye be not fleshly, and ye go after man?

4 For when some saith, I am of Paul, and another, But I am of Apollos [another forsooth, I am of Apollos], whether ye be not [fleshly] men?

5 What therefore is Apollos, and what Paul? They be ministers of him, to whom ye have believed; and to each man as God hath given.

6 I planted, Apollos moisted [Apollos watered, or moisted], but God gave increasing.

7 Therefore [And so] neither he that planteth is any thing, neither he that moisteth, but God that giveth increasing.

8 And he that planteth, and he that moisteth, be one; and each shall take his own meed, after his travail.

9 For we be the helpers of God; ye be the earth-tilling of God, ye be the building of God.

10 After the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master carpenter I setted the foundament [I set the foundament]; and another buildeth above. But each man see, how he buildeth above [how and what things he buildeth upon].

11 For no man may set another foundament, except that that is set [besides that that is set], which is Christ Jesus.

12 For if any man buildeth over this foundament, gold, silver, precious stones, sticks, hay, or stubble, [Forsooth if any man build upon this foundament, gold, silver, precious stones, sticks, hay, stubble,]

13 every man's work shall be open; for the day of the Lord shall declare, for it shall be showed in fire; the fire shall prove the work of each man, what manner work it is [what manner it is].

14 If the work of any man dwell still, which he builded above [which he builded upon], he shall receive meed.

15 If any man's work burn, he shall suffer harm [If any man's work shall burn, he shall suffer impairing]; but he shall be safe, so nevertheless as by fire.

16 Know ye not, that ye be the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17 And if any [man] defouleth the temple of God, God shall destroy him [God shall lose him]; for the temple of God is holy, which ye be.

18 No man deceive himself. If any man among you is seen to be wise in this world, be he made a fool, that he be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God; for it is written, I shall catch wise men in their fell wisdom [I shall catch wise men in their fell wisdom, or subtle guile];

20 and again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of wise men, for those be vain [for they be vain].

21 Therefore no man have glory in men [And so no man glory in men]. For all things be yours,

22 either Paul, either Apollos, either Cephas, either the world, either life, either death, either things present, either things to coming [either things to come]; for all things be yours,

23 and ye be of Christ, and Christ is of God.