Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 3
{3:1} Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to
fleshly, as to babies in Messiah. {3:2} I fed you with milk, not with
meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
{3:3} for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy,
strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk
in the ways of men? {3:4} For when one says, "I follow Paul," and
another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? {3:5} Who then is
Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and
each as the Lord gave to him? {3:6} I planted. Apollos watered. But
God gave the increase. {3:7} So then neither he who plants is
anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. {3:8} Now
he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive
his own reward according to his own labor. {3:9} For we are God's
fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. {3:10}
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master
builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each
man be careful how he builds on it. {3:11} For no one can lay any
other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Yeshua the
Messiah. {3:12} But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold,
silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; {3:13} each man's work
will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed
in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's
work is. {3:14} If any man's work remains which he built on it, he
will receive a reward. {3:15} If any man's work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
{3:16} Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's
Spirit lives in you? {3:17} If anyone destroys the temple of God, God
will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are. {3:18} Let
no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in
this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. {3:19} For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
"He has taken the wise in their craftiness."[1] {3:20} And again, "The
Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."[2] {3:21}
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, {3:22}
whether Paul, or Apollos, or [3>]Kefa[<3], or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, {3:23} and
you are Messiah's, and Messiah is God's.
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Footnotes:
[1] {3:19} Job 5:13
[2] {3:20} Psalm 94:11
[3] {3:22} Greek: Cephas
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