1 Corinthians 3:5-17 - The Role Of God's Servants

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work. ⁹ For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building. ¹⁰ In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it. ¹¹ For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems; ¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work. ¹⁴ If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward. ¹⁵ If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

¹⁶ Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you? ¹⁷ If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.