Foundations for Living
1 1 Corinthians 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
2 1 Corinthians 3:2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
3 1 Corinthians 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
4 1 Corinthians 3:4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
5 1 Corinthians 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.
6 1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
7 1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
8 1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
10 1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
11 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13 1 Corinthians 3:13 each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
14 1 Corinthians 3:14 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
15 1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
18 1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
19 1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”;
20 1 Corinthians 3:20 and again, “THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.”
21 1 Corinthians 3:21 So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,
22 1 Corinthians 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,
23 1 Corinthians 3:23 and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.