Corinth’s carnal Christians
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📚And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people,✭ but as to carnal✭, as to infants in Christ. 2 📚I fed you with milk, and not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it, and you still are not able. 3 📚✭For you are still carnal. For while there are envy, and strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and behaving like unbelieving men? 4 📚✭For while one says, “I am of Paul”, and another, “I am of Apollos”, are you not carnal?God’s servants
5 📚✭Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each man? 6 📚I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 📚So then neither he who plants is anything✭, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 📚✭Now he who plants and he who waters are one. And each man will receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 📚For we are workers together with God✭. You are God’s field✭, you are God’s building✭.
Every believer’s work to be tested
10 📚✭In accordance with the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid the foundation✭, and another builds on it. But let everyone take care how he builds on it. 11 📚✭For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 📚✭Now if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, 13 📚every man’s work will be made clear, for the day✭ will make it known, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test everyone’s work as to what sort it is. 14 📚If anyone’s work which he has built on the foundation remains, he will receive a reward. 15 📚If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss✭. He himself will be saved, but as if through fire✭.
Foolishness and wisdom
16 📚✭Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 📚If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy✭ him, for the temple of God is holy. And you are that temple.
18 📚Let no one deceive himself✭. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become foolish so that he may become wise✭. 19 📚For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.
20 📚✭And again,
The Lord knows that the thoughts
of the wise are useless.
The believer’s possessions in Christ