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God’s Fellow Workers

¹ Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.² I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,³ for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?⁴ For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

⁵ What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.⁶ I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.⁷ So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.⁸ He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Christ Our Foundation

(Isaiah 28:14-22; 1 Peter 2:4-8)

¹¹ For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.¹² If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,¹³ his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.¹⁴ If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.¹⁵ If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

You are God’s Temple

(Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 6:18-20)

¹⁶ Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Worldly Wisdom

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.&rdquo^(a);²⁰ And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.&rdquo^(a);

²¹ Therefore stop boasting in men. All things are yours,²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas^(a) or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,²³ and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.