1 Corinthians 3, side by side

¹Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

¹And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

²I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

²I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

³for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

⁴For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

⁴For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

⁵What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

⁵Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

⁶I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

⁶I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

⁷So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

⁸He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

⁸Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

⁹For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

⁹For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

¹⁰By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

¹⁰According 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.

¹¹For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹¹For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹²If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

¹²Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

¹³his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

¹³Every 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.

¹⁴If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

¹⁴If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

¹⁵If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

¹⁵If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

¹⁶Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

¹⁶Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

¹⁷If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

¹⁸Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

¹⁸Let 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.

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

²⁰And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

²⁰And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

²¹Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

²¹Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

²²Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

²³and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

²³And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.