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