| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. | 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 fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are 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, |
| 3for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people? | 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 whenever someone says, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human? | 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? |
| 5What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. | 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 caused it to grow. | 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 counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. | 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 work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work. | 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. |
| 9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God's field, God's building. | 9For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building. |
| 10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds. | 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. |
| 11For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ. | 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. |
| 12If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, | 12Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. |
| 13each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done. | 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 someone has built survives, he will receive a reward. | 14If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. |
| 15If someone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as 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. |
| 16Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in 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 someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are. | 17God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. |
| 18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become 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 age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness." | 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 futile." | 20And again, “The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.” |
| 21So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you, | 21So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— |
| 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or 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, |
| 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. | 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. |
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