1 Corinthians 3 — GNB
3Verse 1I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.Verse 2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;Verse 3for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?Verse 4For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [[like common]] men?Verse 5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?Verse 6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.Verse 7So then, neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is anything, but God that giveth the growth.Verse 8And he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labor.Verse 9For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, ye are God's building.Verse 10According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful master-builder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.Verse 11For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus.Verse 12But if any one build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,Verse 13the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every one's work is.Verse 14If the work which any one built thereon remaineth, he will receive reward;Verse 15if any one's work shall be burned up, he will lose the reward; but he will be saved himself, yet as one escaping through fire.Verse 16Know ye not, that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?Verse 17If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.Verse 18Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.Verse 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: “He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;”Verse 20and again: “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”Verse 21So then let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;Verse 22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come,—all are yours;Verse 23and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.