1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren’t you fleshly?

5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him? 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. 14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

16 Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness." 20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless." 21 Therefore 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 things present, or things to come. All are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

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.