New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 3:5-23

5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? 1Servants through whom you believed, even 2as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 6 3I planted, 4Apollos watered, but 5God was causing the growth. 7So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 8Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will 6receive his own 7reward according to his own labor. 9For we are God’s 8fellow workers; you are God’s 9 10field, God’s 11building.

10According to 12the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder 13I laid a foundation, and 14another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. 11For no man can lay a 15foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, 16precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 17each man’s work will become evident; for 18the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test 19the quality of each man’s work. 14If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will 20receive a reward. 15If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet 21so as through fire.

16 22Do you not know that 23you are a 24temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17If any man destroys the 25temple of God, God will destroy him, for the 26temple of God is holy, and 27that is what you are.

18 28Let no man deceive himself. 29If any man among you thinks that he is wise in 30this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. 19For 31the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is 32the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”; 20and again, “33The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.” 21So then 34let no one boast in men. For 35all things belong to you, 22 36whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or 37life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, 23and 38you belong to Christ; and 39Christ belongs to God.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 3:5 Rom 15:16; 2 Cor 3:3, 6; 4:1; 5:18; 6:4; Eph 3:7; Col 1:25; 1 Tim 1:12 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 3:5 Rom 12:6; 1 Cor 3:10 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 3:6 1 Cor 4:15; 9:1; 15:1; 2 Cor 10:14f ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 3:6 Acts 18:24-27; 1 Cor 1:12 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 3:6 1 Cor 15:10 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 3:8 1 Cor 3:14; 4:5; 9:17; Gal 6:4 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 3:8 Or wages ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 3:9 Mark 16:20; 2 Cor 6:1 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 3:9 Or cultivated land ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 3:9 Is 61:3; Matt 15:13 ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 3:9 1 Cor 3:16; Eph 2:20-22; Col 2:7; 1 Pet 2:5 ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 3:10 Rom 12:3; 1 Cor 15:10 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 3:10 Rom 15:20; 1 Cor 3:11f ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 3:10 1 Thess 3:2 ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 3:11 Is 28:16; Eph 2:20; 1 Pet 2:4ff ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 3:12 Or costly ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 3:13 1 Cor 4:5 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 3:13 Matt 10:15; 1 Cor 1:8; 2 Thess 1:7-10; 2 Tim 1:12, 18; 4:8 ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 3:13 Lit of what sort each man’s work is ↩
20. 1 Corinthians 3:14 1 Cor 3:8; 4:5; 9:17; Gal 6:4 ↩
21. 1 Corinthians 3:15 Job 23:10; Ps 66:10, 12; Jude 23 ↩
22. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Rom 6:16 ↩
23. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Rom 8:9; 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16; Eph 2:21f ↩
24. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Or sanctuary ↩
25. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Or sanctuary ↩
26. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Or sanctuary ↩
27. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Lit who you are ↩
28. 1 Corinthians 3:18 Is 5:21 ↩
29. 1 Corinthians 3:18 1 Cor 8:2; Gal 6:3 ↩
30. 1 Corinthians 3:18 1 Cor 1:20 ↩
31. 1 Corinthians 3:19 1 Cor 1:20 ↩
32. 1 Corinthians 3:19 Job 5:13 ↩
33. 1 Corinthians 3:20 Ps 94:11 ↩
34. 1 Corinthians 3:21 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
35. 1 Corinthians 3:21 Rom 8:32 ↩
36. 1 Corinthians 3:22 1 Cor 1:12; 3:5, 6 ↩
37. 1 Corinthians 3:22 Rom 8:38 ↩
38. 1 Corinthians 3:23 1 Cor 15:23; 2 Cor 10:7; Gal 3:29 ↩
39. 1 Corinthians 3:23 1 Cor 11:3; 15:28 ↩

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