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		1 Cor 3:1 However, brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as to spiritual people, but [only] as to worldly people [dominated by human nature], mere infants [in the new life] in Christ!
		1 Cor 3:2 I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not ready.
		1 Cor 3:3 You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?
		1 Cor 3:4 For when one of you says, "I am [a disciple] of Paul," and another, "I am [a disciple] of Apollos," are you not [proving yourselves unchanged, just] ordinary people?
		1 Cor 3:5 ¶ What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Just servants through whom you believed [in Christ], even as the Lord appointed to each his task.
		1 Cor 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.
		1 Cor 3:7 So neither is the one who plants nor the one who waters anything, but [only] God who causes the growth.
		1 Cor 3:8 He who plants and he who waters are one [in importance and esteem, working toward the same purpose]; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
		1 Cor 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God's cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God's building. [Is 61:3]
		1 Cor 3:10 ¶ According to the [remarkable] grace of God which was given to me [to prepare me for my task], like a skillful master builder I laid a foundation, and now another is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it,
		1 Cor 3:11 for no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ.
		1 Cor 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
		1 Cor 3:13 each one's work will be clearly shown [for what it is]; for the day [of judgment] will disclose it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality and character and worth of each person's work. [2 Cor 5:10]
		1 Cor 3:14 If any person's work which he has built [on this foundation, that is, any outcome of his effort] remains [and survives this test], he will receive a reward.
		1 Cor 3:15 But if any person's work is burned up [by the test], he will suffer the loss [of his reward]; yet he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has barely escaped] through fire. [Job 23:10]
		1 Cor 3:16 ¶ Do you not know and understand that you [the church] are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells [permanently] in you [collectively and individually]?
		1 Cor 3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God [corrupting it with false doctrine], God will destroy the destroyer; for the temple of God is holy (sacred), and that is what you are.
		1 Cor 3:18 ¶ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [discarding his worldly pretensions and acknowledging his lack of wisdom], so that he may become [truly] wise. [Is 5:21]
		1 Cor 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness (absurdity, stupidity) before God; for it is written [in Scripture], "[He is] THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE and CLEVER IN THEIR CRAFTINESS;" [Job 5:13]
		1 Cor 3:20 and again, "THE LORD KNOWS THE THOUGHTS of the [humanly] wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS." [Ps 94:11]
		1 Cor 3:21 So let no one boast in men [about their wisdom, or of having this or that one as a leader]. For all things are yours,
		1 Cor 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter) or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things are yours,
		1 Cor 3:23 and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

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