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Corinthians 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes
in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not
with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet
now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas
there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul;
and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is
Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every
man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither
is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that
giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to
his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with
God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God
which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how
he buildeth thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by
fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which
he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by
fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of
God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple
ye are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If
any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool,
that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the
thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in
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 are yours;
23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ
is God’s.
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