1 | And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. |
2 | I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were
not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. |
3 | For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among
you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? |
4 | For while one saith, I am
of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? |
5 | Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? |
6 | I have planted, Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase. |
7 |
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;
but God that giveth the increase. |
8 | Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man
shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. |
9 | For we are labourers together with God:
ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. |
10 | According to the grace of God which is given unto
me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth
thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. |
11 | For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
12 | Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; |
13 | Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every
man's work of what sort it is. |
14
| If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward. |
15 | If
any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire. |
16 |
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you? |
17 | If
any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
is holy, which temple ye are. |
18
| Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in
this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. |
19 | For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it is written,
He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness.
Job 5:13
|
20 | And
again,
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Psa 94:11
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21 | Therefore let no man glory in
men. For all things are your's; |
22 | Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; |
23 | And ye are Christ's; and Christ is
God's. |