1 Corinthians 3:1-23 - Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹ And I, brethren, was not able to speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even babes in Christ. ² I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able: ³ for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man? ⁴ For when one may say, I am indeed of Paul; another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?

⁵ Then what is Apollos? and what is Paul? But ministers through whom ye believed; even as the Lord gave to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ⁷ So neither is the one planting, nor the one watering anything, but God the one giving the increase. ⁸ But he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's farm; ye are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given unto me, I as a wise architect, laid the foundation; and another builds on it. Let each one take heed how he builds. ¹¹ For other foundation no one is able to lay beside the one which is laid, who is Jesus Christ. ¹² But if any one builds upon the foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ the work of each will be made manifest: for the day will reveal it, because it is revealed by fire; and the same fire will try the work of each what soil it is. ¹⁴ And if the work of any one which he builds, abides, he will receive a reward: ¹⁵ But if the work of any one shall be burnt up, he shall suffer loss; but himself shall be saved, but as through the fire.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you 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 has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. ²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. ²¹ So let no one boast among 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. ²³ All things are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.