• Jesus Christ, Our Foundation

  • 1 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to fleshly men, as to infants in Christ.
  • 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are still not able,
  • 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
  • 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
  • 5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.
  • 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
  • 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
  • 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
  • 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
  • 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
  • 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
  • 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
  • 13 each man’s work will become evident, for the day will indicate it because it is revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
  • 14 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
  • 15 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
  • 16 Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
  • 17 If any man destroys the sanctuary of God, God will destroy him, for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.
  • 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
  • 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;
  • 20 and again, “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.”
  • 21 So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,
  • 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,
  • 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.