The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 03
1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to
spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in
Christ.
2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food,
for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you
aren’t ready even now,
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?
4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,”
and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you
fleshly?
5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul,
but servants through whom you believed,
and each as the Lord gave to him?
6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God
gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything,
nor he who waters, but God who
gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters
are the same, but each will receive his own
reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You
are God’s farming, God’s building.
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.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation
than that which has been laid, which
is Jesus Christ.
12 But if anyone builds on the foundation
with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay,
or straw,
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.
14 If any man’s work remains which he
built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved,
but as through fire.
16 Don’t you know that you are God’s
temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God
will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy,
which you are.
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.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, “He has
taken the wise in their craftiness.”*
20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning
of the wise, that it is worthless.”*
21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For
all things are yours,
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,
or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come. All are yours,
23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is
God’s.