- 1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
- 2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;
- 3for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
- 4For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
- 5What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
- 6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- 7So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
- 8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
- 9For we are God`s fellow-workers: ye are God`s husbandry, God`s building.
- 10According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
- 11For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- 12But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
- 13each man`s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man`s work of what sort it is.
- 14If any man`s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
- 15If any man`s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
- 16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- 17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
- 18Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
- 20and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
- 21Wherefore 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 to come; all are yours;
- 23and ye are Christ`s; and Christ is God`s.