Chapter 3

1 And I, brother., could not speak to 2 you as spiritual people 3 3For you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife exist among you, are you not living 4 according to the flesh, and are you not walking by human standards? 4For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another says, "I 5 follow Apollos," are you not merely human 6 7 6I planted and Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7So then, neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything. 8 8Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own wages 9 according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers. 10 10According to the grace of God that was given to me as a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation and another is building on it. But let each man be careful 11 how he builds on it. 11For no one can lay a foundation other than the one that has been laid, that is, Jesus 12 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, 13 hay, or straw, 13his work will be revealed, for the day will reveal it. For it will be revealed in fire. 14 14If anyone's work remains, he will receive a reward; 15but if anyone's work is 15 burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as though escaping through fire. 16 16Do you not know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and so are you. 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a 19 "fool" that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in 20 their craftiness." 20And again, "The Lord knows that the reasoning of the wise is futile." 21 21For this reason, let no one boast in men. All things are yours, 22whether Paul, or Apollos, 22 or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All things are yours, 23and you are 23 Christ's, and Christ is God's.