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Chapter 3 |
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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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I have fed you with milk, and not with ameat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. |
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For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? |
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For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? |
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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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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. |
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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. |
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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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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. |
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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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For other 1foundation can 2no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
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Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; |
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Every man's work shall be 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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If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. |
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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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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? |
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If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. |
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this aworld, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. |
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, 1He
taketh the wise in their own craftiness. |
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And again, 1The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's; |
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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; |
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And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. |
1st Corinthians 4
