Chapter 3

¹And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; ²with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able, ³for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk? ⁴for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;` and another, `I -- of Apollos;` are ye not fleshly? ⁵Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; ⁷so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God; ⁸and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, ⁹for of God we are fellow-workmen; God`s tillage, God`s building ye are. ¹⁰According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on [it], ¹¹for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; ¹²and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw -- ¹³of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare [it], because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; ¹⁴if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive; ¹⁵if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire. ¹⁶have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? ¹⁷if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are. ¹⁸Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise, ¹⁹for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;` ²⁰and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.` ²¹So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours, ²²whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours, ²³and ye [are] Christ`s, and Christ [is] God`s.