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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. 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, 3:3 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? 3:4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men? 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 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. 3:11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 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. 3:14 If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. 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. 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 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. 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. 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"; 3:20 and again, "The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless." 3:21 So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you, 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, 3:23 and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.