¹And I myself, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to infants in the Anointed One.

²I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food; for you were not yet able, in fact not even now are you able;

³for still you are fleshly. For where among you are jealousy and strife and dissensions, are you not surely fleshly and walking according to man?

⁴For when one may say, I myself indeed am of Paul, however another, I myself of Apollos, are you not human?

⁵Then who is Apollos, and who is Paul, other than servants through whom you trusted, also to each as the Lord has given.

⁶I myself planted, Apollos watered, but God was growing it;

⁷so neither the one who plants is anything nor the one who waters, but only the One giving growth — God;

⁸Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, now each will receive his own wage according to his own labor.

⁹For we are fellow workers of God; you are God’s field, God’s building.

¹⁰According to the favor of God which has been given to me, as a wise master builder I laid the foundation, however another is building upon it. However each one should take heed how he builds upon it.

¹¹For no one is able to lay another foundation besides the one being already laid, which is Jesus the Anointed One.

¹²Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

¹³the work of each will become manifest; for the day will disclose it, because in fire it is revealed, and the fire itself will prove what sort the work of each is.

¹⁴If the work of anyone which he built up will remain, a wage he will receive;

¹⁵if the work of anyone will be burned up, he will suffer loss, however he himself will be saved, so however as through fire.

¹⁶Surely you know that you yourselves are temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁷If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which you yourselves are.

¹⁸No one should deceive himself; if anyone among you thinks himself to be wise in this age, he should become foolish so that he may become wise.

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written: He is the One who catches the wise in their craftiness;

²⁰and again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.

²¹Therefore no one should boast in men; for all things are yours,

²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things being present or things to come — all is yours —

²³now you of the Anointed One, now the Anointed One of God.