1 Corinthians 3

3 ¹ And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as people of the Spirit, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. And even now you are still not ready, ³ for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and living in a merely human way? ⁴ For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you acting just like ordinary people?

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but our Father made it grow. ⁷ So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only our Father, who makes it grow. ⁸ The one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are our Father's fellow workers; you are his field, his building.

¹⁰ By the grace our Father gave me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But let each one take care how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹³ each one's work will come to light, for the Day will make it clear, because fire reveals it; and the fire will test the quality of each one's work. ^a a v13 'The Day' refers to the future day of Christ's judgment, when believers' works will be evaluated. ¹⁴ If the work that anyone has built survives, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

¹⁶ Don't you know that you are the temple of our Father, and that the Spirit of our Father lives in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys the temple of our Father, he will destroy him. For the temple of our Father is holy, and that temple is you.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool, so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to our Father. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," ²⁰ and again, "Our Father knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." ²¹ So let no one boast about people. For all things are yours, ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is our Father's.