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I Corinthians 3, RSV

3:1 But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.

3:2 I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,

3:3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

3:4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apol'los," are you not merely men?

3:5 What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

3:6 I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.

3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

3:8 He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.

3:9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

3:10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.

3:11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

3:12 Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --

3:13 each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

3:14 If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

3:17 If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"

3:20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."

3:21 So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,

3:22 whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;

3:23 and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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