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

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase. ⁷ So that neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. ⁸ And he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let every one see to it how he buildeth thereon. ¹¹ For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold, ¹² silver, precious stones, or wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward: ¹⁵ but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

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