1 En ek, broeders, kon met julle nie spreek soos met geestelike mense nie, maar soos met vleeslike, soos met klein kinders in Christus.

2 Ek het julle met melk gevoed, nie met vaste spys nie, want julle was nog nie daartoe in staat nie, en julle is nou nog nie daartoe in staat nie,

3 omdat julle nog vleeslik is; want aangesien daar onder julle jaloersheid en twis en tweedrag is, is julle nie vleeslik nie en wandel julle nie na die mens nie?

4 Want as die een sê: Ek is van Paulus; en die ander: Ek van Apollos -- is julle nie vleeslik nie?

5 Wie is Paulus dan, en wie Apollos anders as dienaars deur wie julle gelowig geword het? En dit soos die Here aan elkeen gegee het.

6 Ek het geplant, Apollos het natgemaak, maar God het laat groei.

7 So is dan hy wat plant of hy wat natmaak, niks nie, maar God wat laat groei.

8 Maar hy wat plant en hy wat natmaak, is een, maar elkeen sal sy eie loon volgens sy eie arbeid ontvang.

9 Want ons is medewerkers van God; die akker van God, die gebou van God is julle.

10 Volgens die genade van God wat aan my gegee is, het ek soos 'n bekwame boumeester die fondament gelê, en 'n ander bou daarop; maar elkeen moet oppas hoe hy daarop bou.

11 Want niemand kan 'n ander fondament lê as wat daar gelê is nie, dit is Jesus Christus.

12 En as iemand op die fondament bou goud, silwer, kosbare stene, hout, hooi, stoppels --

13 elkeen se werk sal aan die lig kom, want die dag sal dit aanwys, omdat dit deur vuur openbaar gemaak word; en die vuur sal elkeen se werk op die proef stel, hoedanig dit is.

14 As iemand se werk bly staan wat hy daarop gebou het, sal hy loon ontvang;

15 as iemand se werk verbrand word, sal hy skade ly; alhoewel hy self gered sal word, maar soos deur vuur heen.

16 Weet julle nie dat julle 'n tempel van God is en die Gees van God in julle woon nie?

17 As iemand die tempel van God skend, sal God hom skend; want die tempel van God is heilig, en dit is julle.

18 Laat niemand homself mislei nie: as iemand meen dat hy wys is onder julle in hierdie wêreld, laat hom dwaas word, sodat hy wys kan word;

19 want die wysheid van hierdie wêreld is dwaasheid by God; want daar is geskrywe: Hy wat die wyse mense in hulle listigheid vang;

20 en verder: Die Here ken die gedagtes van die wyse mense, dat dit nietig is.

21 Laat niemand dan op mense roem nie, want alles behoort aan julle;

22 of dit Paulus is of Apollos of C,fas of die wêreld of lewe of dood of teenswoordige of toekomstige dinge -- alles behoort aan julle;

23 maar julle behoort aan Christus, en Christus aan God.

1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men? 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. 6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 each man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man’s work of what sort it is. 14 If any man’s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness: 20 and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain. 21 Wherefore 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 ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.