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1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to
spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with
milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and
factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? 4 For
when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you
fleshly? 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom
you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos
watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is
anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who
plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward
according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are
God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was
given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds
on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can
lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But
if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay,
or stubble; 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare
it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of
work each man’s work is. 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on
it, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.  
16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God,
and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple,
God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which temple you are.  
18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks
that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may
become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For
it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.” Job 5:13 
20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is
worthless.” Psalm
94:11  21 Therefore let no one boast 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 you
are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. 
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