1 Corinthians 3:1-13 ▼

1 Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

3 That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

4 For when one person says, |I follow Paul,| and another person says, |I follow to Apollos,| you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

5 Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

8 The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action.

9 For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.

10 As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

11 After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.

12 Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw,

13 the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's action.