1 Corinthians 3:1-13 ▼

1 And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,

3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and living by human standards?

4 For when one says, |I follow Paul,| and another, |I follow Apollos,| are you not merely human?

5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him.

6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God made it grow.

7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow.

8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

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 one be careful how he builds on it.

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

12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw;

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.