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 the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

7 So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

8 Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

15 If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

20 And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

21 So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours;

22 Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.