Today's Bible Passage is "1Corinthians3:1-23"
On
Divisions in the Church
1 Brothers, I could not
address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in
Christ.
2 I gave you milk, not
solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still
not ready.
3 You are still worldly.
For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not
worldly? Are
you not acting like mere men?
4 For
when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another,
“I follow Apollos,” are you not
mere men?
5 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.
6 I
planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
7 So
neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who
makes
things grow.
8 The
man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will
be
rewarded according to his own labor.
9 For we
are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field,
God’s building.
10 By the
grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and
someone
else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.
11 For
no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is
Jesus
Christ.
12 If
any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones,
wood, hay
or straw,
13 his
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
man’s
work.
14 If
what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.
15 If it
is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only
as one
escaping through the flames.
16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple
and that God’s Spirit lives
in you?
17 If
anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for
God’s temple is sacred,
and you are that temple.
18 Do
not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the
standards of
this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may
become wise.
19 For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it
is written: “He
catches the wise in their craftiness”;
20 and
again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are
futile.”
21 So
then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours,
22
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the
present
or the future—all are yours,
23 and you are of Christ,
and Christ is of God.
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