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[1]SO I, my brethren, could not converse with you as with spiritual men, but as with worldly men and even as with little children in Christ.
[2]I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were unable to eat it, and even now you are not ready for it;
[3]Because you are still worldly: for as long as there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are you not worldly and still following after the material things?
[4]For while one says, I am a follower of Paul; and another, I am a follower of Apollos; are you not worldly?
[5]Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you were converted; each one is gifted according as the LORD gave to him.
[6]I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
[7]So then neither he who plants, nor he who waters deserves the credit; but God who gives the increase.
[8]Thus the planter and the waterer are equal: and each one shall receive his own wages according to his own labor.
[9]For we work together with God: you are God's work and God's building.
[10]According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let every man be careful how he builds thereon.
[11]For other foundation can no man lay than that which is already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
[12]Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, or precious stones, or wood, or hay, or stubble;
[13]Every man's work shall be plainly seen: for the light of day shall expose it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work and show of what sort it is.
[14]And the builder whose work survives shall receive his reward.
[15]And the one whose work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be rescued, even as one who has been saved from the fire.
[16]Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
[17]And whoever defiles the temple of God, God will destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and that temple is you.
[18]Let no man deceive himself. Whoever among you thinks he is wise in this world, let him consider himself a fool so that he may become wise.
[19]For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.
[20]And again, The LORD knows that the thoughts of the wise are vain.
[21]Therefore, let no man boast about men. For all things are yours;
[22]Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all things are yours;
[23]And you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
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