1 Corinthians 3:1-23 - Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹ And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able; ³ for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men? ⁴ For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?

⁵ Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow. ⁷ So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow. ⁸ But he that plants and he that waters are one; and each one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God's field, you are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this. ¹¹ For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which, is Jesus Christ. ¹² If any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, ¹³ each man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall make it manifest, for it is revealed with fire: and the fire shall try each man's work, what sort it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work abide, which he builds on this, he shall receive a reward; ¹⁵ if any man's work be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so, as through fire.

¹⁶ Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He takes the wise in their own craftiness. ²⁰ And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. ²¹ Therefore, 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 you are Christ's: and Christ is God s.