1Corinthians - Chapter 3 | American Standard Version

  • 1. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
  • 2. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able {cf15i to bear it}: nay, not even now are ye able;
  • 3. for 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?
  • 4. For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
  • 5. What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
  • 6. I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
  • 7. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
  • 8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
  • 9. For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
  • 10. According 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.
  • 11. For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
  • 12. But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
  • 13. each 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.
  • 14. If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
  • 15. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
  • 16. Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and {cf15i that} the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 17. If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
  • 18. Let 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.
  • 19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
  • 20. and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
  • 21. Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
  • 22. whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
  • 23. and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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