1 Corinthians 3
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1 Corinthians 3:1-17

1And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as 1spiritual people, but only as 2fleshly, as to 3infants in Christ. 2I gave you 4milk to drink, not solid food; for you 5were not yet able to consume it. But even now you are not yet able, 3for you are still fleshly. For since there is 6jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking 7like ordinary people? 4For when 8one person says, “I am 9with Paul,” and another, “I am 10with Apollos,” are you not ordinary 11people?

5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? 12Servants through whom you believed, even 13as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 614I planted, 15Apollos watered, but 16God 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 the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will 17receive his own 18reward according to his own labor. 9For we are God’s 19fellow workers; you are God’s 2021field, God’s 22building.

10According to 23the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder 24I laid a foundation, and 25another is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it. 11For no one can lay a 26foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 1327each one’s work will become evident; for 28the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test 29the quality of each one’s work. 14If anyone’s work which he has built on it remains, he will 30receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet only 31so as through fire.

1632Do you not know that 33you are a 34temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17If anyone destroys the 35temple of God, God will destroy 36that person; for the 37temple of God is holy, 38and that is what you are.

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Notes

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

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