| Chapter 3 |
1 | And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.
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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.
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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?
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4 | For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
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5 | Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
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6 | I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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7 | So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
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8 | Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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9 | For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
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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.
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11 | For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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12 | Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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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.
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14 | If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
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15 | If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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16 | Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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17 | If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
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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.
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19 | For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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20 | And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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21 | Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
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22 | Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
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23 | And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.
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