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The Church and Its Leaders

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly — mere infants in Christ.

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Paul and Apollos God's Fellow Workers

And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

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I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.

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I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

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You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?

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for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

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For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?

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For when one says, *I* am of Paul, and another, *I* of Apollos, are ye not men?

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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe — as the Lord has assigned to each his task.

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Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.

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I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.

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*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

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So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

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The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.

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But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

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For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

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For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.

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Christ the Only Foundation

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

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For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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For other foundation can no man lay besides that which [is] laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,

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Now if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

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their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.

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the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

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If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.

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If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

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If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved — even though only as one escaping through the flames.

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If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire.

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Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

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You are God's Temple

Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

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If any one corrupt the temple of God, *him* shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are *ye*.

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Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.

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Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”a;

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Worldly Wisdom is Foolishness to God

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

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and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”b

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And again, [The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

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So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,

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So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephasc or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours,

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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours;