1And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. 2I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready, 3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and living by human standards? 4For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not merely human?

5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him. 6I planted. Apollos watered. But God made it grow. 7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. 8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds on it. 11For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw; 13each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 14If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

16Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He traps the wise in their craftiness." 20And again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." 21Therefore let no one boast about people. For all things are yours, 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 are Christ's, and Christ is God's.