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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Corinthians 3 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Corinthians 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/2.htm" title="1 Corinthians 2">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 3 <a href="../1_corinthians/4.htm" title="1 Corinthians 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_corinthians/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Divisions in the Church</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But I, brothers,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters">a</a></sup></span> could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or wise">b</a></sup></span> master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do you not know that you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek for you is plural in verses 16 and 17">c</a></sup></span> are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>wise</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> The Greek for <i class="catch-word">you</i> is plural in verses 16 and 17<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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