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1 Corinthians 3

New Revised Standard NRS

1 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,

3 for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?

4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human?

5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

8 The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each.

9 For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.

10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it.

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

12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

13 the work of each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.

14 If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward.

15 If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.

16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in 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 catches the wise in their craftiness,"

20 and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

21 So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours,

22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all belong to you,

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

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.