¹ And brethren, I was not able to speak to you° as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly people, as to infants in Christ.

² I delivered you° milk to drink {i.e., nurse an infant} and not food, for$ you° were not yet able to eat it. But still you° are not able even now,

³ for$ you° are still fleshly. For$ where there is jealousy and strife and dissensions among you°, are you° not fleshly, and are you° walking according-to the way of man?

⁴ For$ whenever someone says, I am indeed of Paul, but a different one, I am of Apollos, are you° not fleshly?

⁵ Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But or, are they servants through whom you° believed, even as the Lord gave to each?

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

⁷ So-then neither is the one planting anything, nor the one watering, but God who is causing the growth.

⁸ Now the one planting and the one watering are one, but each one will be receiving his own reward according-to his own labor.

⁹ For$ we are God’s fellow workers. You° are God’s cultivation {i.e. field} , God’s building.

¹⁰ According-to the grace of God which was given to me, I have laid a foundation like a wise expert-builder, and another is building upon it. But let each one beware how he is building upon it.

¹¹ For$ no one is able to lay another foundation beside the one already laid, who is Jesus Christ.

¹² But if anyone is building upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, woods, grass, straw,

¹³ the work of each one will become apparent. For$ the day will indicate it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

¹⁴ If anyone’s work remains which he built upon it, he will be receiving a reward.

¹⁵ If the work of anyone will be burned, he will suffer-loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

¹⁶ Do you° not know that you° are a temple of God and the Spirit of God is dwelling in you°?

¹⁷ If anyone corrupts the temple of God, God will have corruption for this one; for$ the temple of God is holy, which you° are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone seems to be wise in this age among you°, let him become foolish, in-order-that he may become wise.

¹⁹ For$ the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for$ it has been written, ‘It is he who grabs the wise in their craftiness’; {Job 5:13}

²⁰ and again, ‘The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.’ {Psa 94:11}

²¹ So-then, let no one boast in men. For$ all things are yours°,

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or present things, or future things. All things are yours°,

²³ and you° are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.