¹ And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

³ for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

⁴ For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?

⁵ Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.

⁷ So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow.

⁸ But he that plants and he that waters are one; and each one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

⁹ For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

¹¹ For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which, is Jesus Christ.

¹² If any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

¹³ each man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day shall make it manifest, for it is revealed with fire: and the fire shall try each man’s work, what sort it is.

¹⁴ If any man’s work abide, which he builds on this, he shall receive a reward;

¹⁵ if any man’s work be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so, as through fire.

¹⁶ Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

²⁰ And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

²¹ Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours,

²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours:

²³ and you are Christ’s: and Christ is God’s.