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3:1 |
But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
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3:2 |
I fed you with milk, not solid food;for you were not ready for it;and even yet you are not ready,
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3:3 |
for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?
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3:4 |
For when one says, 'I belong to Paul,' and another, 'I belong to Apol'los,' are you not merely men?
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3:5 |
What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
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3:6 |
I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
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3:7 |
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
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3:8 |
He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.
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3:9 |
For we are God's fellow workers;you are God's field, God's building.
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3:10 |
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
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3:11 |
For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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3:12 |
Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --
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3:13 |
each man's work will become manifest;for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
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3:14 |
If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
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3:15 |
If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
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3:16 |
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
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3:17 |
If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
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3:18 |
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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3:19 |
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness,'
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3:20 |
and again, 'The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.'
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3:21 |
So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,
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3:22 |
whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;
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3:23 |
and you are Christ's;and Christ is God's.
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