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| 3 | 1 Corinthians |
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But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ. | Fellow Workmen for God 1Cor.3.1-23 |
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I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready, | |
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for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men? | |
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For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely men? | |
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What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. | |
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. | |
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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. | |
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He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labour. | |
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. | |
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According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. | |
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For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. | |
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Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - | |
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each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. | |
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If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. | |
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If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. | |
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Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? | |
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If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are. | |
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Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. | |
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For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," | - He catches the wise in their craftiness 1Cor.3.19 - Jb.5.13 |
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and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." | - The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile 1Cor.3.20 - Ps.94.11 |
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So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, | |
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; | |
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and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's. | |
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