| 1 ¶ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
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| 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
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| 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions,1 are ye not carnal, and walk as men2?
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| 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
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| 5 ¶ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
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| 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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| 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
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| 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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| 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry,3 ye are God's building.
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| 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
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| 11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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| 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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| 13 Every man's work shall be4 made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
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| 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
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| 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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| 16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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| 17 If any man defile5 the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
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| 18 ¶ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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| 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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| 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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| 21 ¶ Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
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| 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
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| 23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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