1 CORINTHIANS 3 [†]But I, brothers, [1] could not address you as  a spiritual people, but as  b people of the flesh, as  c infants in Christ. 2[†] d I fed you with milk, not solid food, for  e you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3for you are still of the flesh. For while there is  f jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4For  g when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”  h are you not being merely human?

5What then is Apollos? What is Paul?  i Servants through whom you believed,  j as the Lord assigned to each. 6 k I planted,  l Apollos watered,  m but God gave the growth. 7So  n 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 each  o will receive his wages according to his labor. 9For we are  p God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field,  q God’s building.

10 r According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a  s foundation, and  t someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11For no one can lay a  u foundation other  v than that which is laid,  w which is Jesus Christ. 12[†]Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 x each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed  y by fire, and  z the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14[†]If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives,  a he will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved,  b but only as through fire.

16[†] c Do you not know that you [2] are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17[†]If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For  d God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 e Let no one deceive himself.  f If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For  g the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written,  h “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20and again,  i “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21[†]So  j let no one boast in men. For  k all things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23and  l you are Christ’s, and  m Christ is God’s.