| 1 | And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly—as to babes in Christ; |
| 2 | with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able, |
| 3 | for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk? |
| 4 | for when one may say, 'I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, 'I—of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly? |
| 5 | Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? |
| 6 | I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; |
| 7 | so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth—God; |
| 8 | and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, |
| 9 | for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are. |
| 10 | According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on [it], |
| 11 | for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; |
| 12 | and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw -- |
| 13 | of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare [it], because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; |
| 14 | if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive; |
| 15 | if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire. |
| 16 | have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? |
| 17 | if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are. |
| 18 | Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise, |
| 19 | for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, 'Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;' |
| 20 | and again, 'The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.' |
| 21 | So then, let no one 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 about to be—all are yours, |
| 23 | and ye [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's. |