| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes 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 with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; | 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 carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? | 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 says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal? | 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 then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? | 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 gave the increase. | 6I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. |
| 7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. | 7It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. |
| 8Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. | 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 fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are 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 which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed 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. |
| 11For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. | 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. |
| 12Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, | 12Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. |
| 13each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. | 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 anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. | 14If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. |
| 15If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so 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 the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells 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 anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. | 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 anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may 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 world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own 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 the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” | 20And again, “The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.” |
| 21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: | 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 things present or things to come—all are yours. | 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 are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. | 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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