{"book":"1 Corinthians","slug":"1-corinthians","ch":3,"genre":"letter","sub":"1 Corinthians","prev":"1-corinthians/2","next":"1-corinthians/4","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly — as infants in Christ.","f":[],"h":"God’s Fellow Workers","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready [for solid food]. In fact, you are still not ready,","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"for you are still worldly. For since [there is] jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? [ Are you not ] walking in the way of man?","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"For when one [of you] says,“ I [follow] Paul,” and another,“ I [follow] Apollos,” are you not mere men?","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? [They are] servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each [ his role ].","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"I planted [the seed] [and] Apollos watered [it], but God made [ it ] grow.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but [only] God, who makes [things] grow.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"He who plants and he who waters are one [ in purpose ], and each will be rewarded according to [his] own labor.","f":["Literally are one"]},{"v":9,"t":"For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"By the grace God has given me, I laid [a] foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on [it]. But each one must be careful how he builds.","f":[],"h":"Christ Our Foundation","style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"For no one can lay a foundation other than the [one] already laid, which is Jesus Christ.","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"If anyone builds on [this] foundation [using] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, [or] straw,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each [man’s] work.","f":[]},{"v":14,"t":"If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"If [it] is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through [the] flames.","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?","f":["Or among"],"h":"God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom","style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, [and] you are [that temple].","f":[]},{"v":18,"t":"{Let} no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. [As] it is written:“ He catches the wise in their craftiness.”","f":["Job 5:13"]},{"v":20,"t":"And again,“ [The] Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”","f":["Psalm 94:11"]},{"v":21,"t":"Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or [the] world or life or death or the present or the future. All [of them] [belong to] you,","f":["That is, Peter"]},{"v":23,"t":"and you [belong to] Christ, and Christ [belongs to] God.","f":[]}]}