1 C hristian brothers, I could not speak to you as to full-grown Christians. I spoke to you as men who have not obeyed the things you have been taught. I spoke to you as if you were baby Christians.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

2 M y teaching was as if I were giving you milk to drink. I could not give you meat because you were not ready for it. Even yet you are not able to have anything but milk.

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

3 Y ou still live as men who are not Christians. When you are jealous and fight with each other, you are still living in sin and acting like sinful men in the world.

for yet ye are fleshly, for where among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

4 W hen one says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I am a follower of Apollos,” does not this sound like the talk of baby Christians?

for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

5 W ho is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only servants owned by God. He gave us gifts to preach His Word. And because of that, you put your trust in Christ.

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

6 I planted the seed. Apollos watered it, but it was God Who kept it growing.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

7 T his shows that the one who plants or the one who waters is not the important one. God is the important One. He makes it grow.

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

8 T he one who plants and the one who waters are alike. Each one will receive his own reward.

and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

9 F or we work together with God. You are God’s field. You are God’s building also.

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

10 T hrough God’s loving-favor to me, I laid the stones on which the building was to be built. I did it like one who knew what he was doing. Now another person is building on it. Each person who builds must be careful how he builds on it.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on,

11 J esus Christ is the Stone on which other stones for the building must be laid. It can be only Christ.

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

12 N ow if a man builds on the Stone with gold or silver or beautiful stones, or if he builds with wood or grass or straw,

and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --

13 e ach man’s work will become known. There will be a day when it will be tested by fire. The fire will show what kind of work it is.

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

14 I f a man builds on work that lasts, he will receive his reward.

if of any one the work doth remain that he built on, a wage he shall receive;

15 I f his work is burned up, he will lose it. Yet he himself will be saved as if he were going through a fire.

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

16 D o you not know that you are a house of God and that the Holy Spirit lives in you?

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

17 I f any man destroys the house of God, God will destroy him. God’s house is holy. You are the place where He lives.

if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

18 D o not fool yourself. If anyone thinks he knows a lot about the things of this world, he had better become a fool. Then he may become wise.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

19 T he wisdom of this world is foolish to God. The Holy Writings say, “He is the One Who gets them in a trap when they use their own wisdom.”

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

20 T hey also say, “The Lord knows how the wise man thinks. His thinking is worth nothing.”

and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

21 A s a Christian, do not be proud of men and of what they can do. All things belong to you.

So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

22 P aul and Apollos and Peter belong to you. The world and life and death belong to you. Things now and things to come belong to you.

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,

23 Y ou belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

and ye Christ's, and Christ God's.