1 Corinthians 3:1-23 - Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹ And I could not speak unto you brethren as unto spiritual: but as unto carnal, even as it were unto babes in Christ. ² I gave you milk to drink and not meat. For ye then were not strong - no, neither yet are strong. ³ For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men? ⁴ As long as one saith "I hold of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are ye not carnal?

⁵ What is Paul? What thing is Apollos? Only ministers are they, by whom ye believed: even as the Lord gave every man grace. ⁶ I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase. ⁷ So then, neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth: but God which gave the increase. ⁸ He that planteth, and he that watereth, are neither better than the other. Every man yet shall receive his reward according to his labour. ⁹ We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God given unto me, as a wise builder have I laid the foundation; and another hath built thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon. ¹¹ For other foundation can no man lay, than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² If any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble: ¹³ every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work, that he hath built upon, abide; he shall receive a reward. ¹⁵ If any man's work burn; he shall suffer loss. But he shall be safe himself, nevertheless yet as it were through fire.

¹⁶ Are ye not aware that ye are the temple of God, and how that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? ¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness." ²⁰ And again, "God knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they be vain." ²¹ Therefore let no man rejoice in men. For all things are yours, ²² whether it be Paul, either Apollos, either Cephas: whether it be the world, or life, either death, whether they be present things or things to come: all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.