1 A nd I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

2 I 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;

3 f or you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

4 F or when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal? Watering, Working, Warning

5 W ho then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?

6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

7 S o then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

8 N ow he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 F or we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

10 A ccording 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.

11 F or no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 N ow if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

13 e ach 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.

14 I f anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

15 I f anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

16 D o you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

17 I f anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. Avoid Worldly Wisdom

18 L et 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.

19 F or the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;

20 a nd again, “The L ord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

21 T herefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:

22 w hether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.

23 A nd you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.