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I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as mere infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Indeed, you are still not ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For since there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
5 What then, is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants, through whom you came to believe, as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but only God who gives the growth. 8 Now the man who plants and the man who waters have a common purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labour. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God given to me, I laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each one’s work will be shown for what it is, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, and you are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; as it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile”. 21 So let no one boast about men! For all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present all the future—all are yours, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.