3 ¹ But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ. 3 ² I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready, 3 ³ 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? 3 ⁴ For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely men?

3 ⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 3 ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 3 ⁷ So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 3 ⁸ He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labour. 3 ⁹ For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

3 ¹⁰ 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. 3 ¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3 ¹² Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - 3 ¹³ 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. 3 ¹⁴ If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 3 ¹⁵ If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

3 ¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 3 ¹⁷ If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

3 ¹⁸ 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. 3 ^{19 [ Jb.5.13. ]} For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," 3 ^{20 [ Ps.94.11. ]} and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." 3 ²¹ So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours, 3 ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours; 3 ²³ and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.