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Indeed, not even now are you ready, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.</p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">Christ the Only Foundation<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../isaiah/28.htm#14">Isaiah 28:14-22</a>; <a href="../1_peter/2.htm#4">1 Peter 2:4-12</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.</p> <a name="16" id="16"></a><p class="hdg">You are God's Temple<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../romans/12.htm">Romans 12:1-8</a>; <a href="../1_corinthians/6.htm#18">1 Corinthians 6:18-20</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Worldly Wisdom is Foolishness to God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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