| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah. | 1Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. |
| 2I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready! | 2I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, |
| 3That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you? | 3for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? |
| 4For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow to Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you? | 4When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world? |
| 5Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task. | 5After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. |
| 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing. | 6I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. |
| 7So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters. | 7It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. |
| 8The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action. | 8The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. |
| 9For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building. | 9For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building. |
| 10As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it. | 10Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. |
| 11After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah. | 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. |
| 12Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw, | 12Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. |
| 13the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's action. | 13But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. |
| 14If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. | 14If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. |
| 15If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire. | 15But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames. |
| 16You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you? | 16Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? |
| 17If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary! | 17God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. |
| 18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise. | 18Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise. |
| 19For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery," | 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.” |
| 20and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless." | 20And again, “The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.” |
| 21So let no one boast about human beings, since everything belongs to you, | 21So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— |
| 22whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future—everything belongs to you, | 22whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, |
| 23but you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God. | 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. |
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