1 But I, brothers, could not address you asach. 2:15; Rom. 7:14 spiritual people, but asb[ch. 2:14] people of the flesh, ascHeb. 5:13; [ch. 2:6] infants in Christ. 2 dHeb. 5:12, 13; 1 Pet. 2:2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, foreJohn 16:12 you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there isfGal. 5:19, 20; [ch. 1:11; 11:18; Rom. 13:13] jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 ForgSee ch. 1:12 when one says, “I follow Paul, ” and another, “I follow Apollos, ”h[ver. 3] are you not being merely human?
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul?i2 Cor. 6:4; Eph. 3:7; Col. 1:25; [2 Cor. 3:3] Servants through whom you believed,jSee Rom. 12:6 as the Lord assigned to each. 6 kch. 4:15; 9:1; 15:1; Acts 18:4-11; 2 Cor. 10:14, 15 I planted,lActs 18:27 Apollos watered,m[ch. 15:10; Col. 1:18] but God gave the growth. 7 Son2 Cor. 12:11; Gal. 6:3; [Gal. 2:6] neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and eachover. 14; ch. 15:58; 2 John 8; [ch. 4:5; Gal. 6:4, 5]; See Matt. 16:27; Rom. 2:6 will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we arepMark 16:20; 2 Cor. 6:1 God's fellow workers. You are God's field,qEph. 2:20-22; Col. 2:7; [ver. 16; Ps. 127:1] God's building.
10 r[2 Pet. 3:15]; See Rom. 12:3 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid asver. 11, 12; Rom. 15:20; [Rev. 21:14] foundation, andt[ch. 4:15] someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay auIsa. 28:16 foundation otherv[2 Cor. 11:4; Gal. 1:6, 7] than that which is laid,w[Eph. 2:20] which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 xch. 4:5 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealedyver. 15; 2 Thess. 1:8 by fire, andz1 Pet. 1:7 the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives,aSee ver. 8 he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved,b[Ps. 66:12; Isa. 43:2; Jude 23] but only as through fire.
16 cch. 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. Ford[2 Cor. 7:1] God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18 e[Isa. 5:21; Gal. 6:3] Let no one deceive himself.f[ch. 8:2; Jer. 8:8, 9] If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 ForgSee ch. 1:20 the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written,hCited from Job 5:13 “He catches the wise in their craftiness, ” 20 and again,iCited from Ps. 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile. ” 21 Sojver. 4-6; ch. 1:12; 4:6 let no one boast in men. ForkRom. 8:28 all things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 andl2 Cor. 10:7; Gal. 3:29 you are Christ's, andm[ch. 11:3] Christ is God's.