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¹ Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in Christ.[xr] ² I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. Why, you're still not ready for it![xr] ³ That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?[xr] ⁴ For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," you are merely human, aren't you?[xr]

⁵ What is Apollos anyhow? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.[xr] ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God kept everything growing.[xr] ⁷ So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.[xr] ⁸ The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own work.[xr] ⁹ For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.[xr] ¹⁰ As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.[xr]

¹¹ After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus Christ.[xr] ¹² Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹³ the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day[fn] will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work.[xr] ¹⁴ If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.[fn][xr] ¹⁵ If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.[xr]

¹⁶ You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?[xr] ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of[fn] this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.[xr] ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written,[xr] "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"[fn] ²⁰ and again,[xr] "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."[fn]

²¹ So let no one boast about men. For everything belongs to you,[xr] ²² whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas,[fn] the world, life, death, the present, or the future - everything belongs to you, ²³ but you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.[xr]