1 B rothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

3 f or 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?

4 F or when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

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

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 the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 F or we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

10 A ccording 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.

11 F or no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 B ut if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

13 e ach 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.

14 I f any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

15 I f any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

16 D on’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

17 I f anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

18 L et 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.

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

20 A nd again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

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.