Sept. 7
1 Corinthians 3
1Co 3:1 Brothers, I
couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to
babies in Christ.
1Co 3:2 I fed you with
milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now
are you ready,
1Co 3:3 for 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?
1Co 3:4 For when one
says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow
Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
1Co 3:5 Who then is
Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and
each as the Lord gave to him?
1Co 3:6 I planted.
Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither
he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the
increase.
1Co 3:8 Now he who
plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own
reward according to his own labor.
1Co 3:9 For we are
God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
1Co 3:10 According 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.
1Co 3:11 For no one can
lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is
Jesus Christ.
1Co 3:12 But if anyone
builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay,
or stubble;
1Co 3:13 each 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.
1Co 3:14 If any man's
work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man's
work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved,
but as through fire.
1Co 3:16 Don't you know
that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
1Co 3:17 If anyone
destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is
holy, which you are.
1Co 3:18 Let 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.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom
of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He
has taken the wise in their craftiness."
1Co 3:20 And again,
"The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is
worthless."
1Co 3:21 Therefore let
no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
1Co 3:22 whether Paul,
or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come. All are yours,
1Co 3:23 and you are
Christ's, and Christ is God's.