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

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow. ⁸ Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service. ⁹ For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another. ¹² On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest. ¹³ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded. ¹⁵ If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

¹⁶ Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you? ¹⁷ If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.