1 Corinthians 3:1-9 ▼

1 However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength.

3 for you are still subject to your passions, since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

4 while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?

5 who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

7 so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

8 he that planteth, and he that watereth, have the same design: and each shall receive his proper reward, in proportion to his own labour.

9 For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.