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1 Corinthians 3

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1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. ✦ 2I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; ✦ 3for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? ✦ 4For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal? ✦ 5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? ✦ 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. ✦ 7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ✦ 8Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ✦ 9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. ✦ 10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. ✦ 11For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ✦ 12Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ✦ 13each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ✦ 14If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. ✦ 15If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. ✦ 16Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ✦ 17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. ✦ 18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a 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 their own craftiness”; ✦ 20and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ✦ 21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: ✦ 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. ✦ 23And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. ✦

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