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1 Corinthians 3 — TCENT

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Division Is of the Flesh

3Verse 1And so, brothers, I could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as infants in Christ.Verse 2I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not able,Verse 3for you are still of the flesh. For where there is+jealousy, strife, and division among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving like mere men?Verse 4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” are you not+of the flesh?Verse 5+Who then is+Paul, and who is Apollos,+but servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each?Verse 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.Verse 7So then, neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but only God who gives the growth.Verse 8He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.Verse 9For we are fellow workers of God; you are God's field, God's building.Verse 10According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I+have laid a foundation, and another builds upon it. But each person must be careful how he builds upon it.Verse 11For no one can lay a foundation other than the one that has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.Verse 12If anyone builds upon+this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Verse 13his work will become evident, for the Day will make it clear, because it is revealed by fire. And the+fire will test each person's work and reveal what sort of work it is.Verse 14If the work that anyone has built remains, he will receive a reward.Verse 15If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; yet he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.Verse 16Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?Verse 17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which is what you are.Verse 18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become foolish so that he may become truly wise.Verse 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”Verse 20and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”Verse 21So then, let no one boast in men. For everything belongs to you,Verse 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world, or life or death, or things present or things to come—everything belongs to you,Verse 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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