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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, 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 meat: 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 foundation can no 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 world, 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, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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And again, The 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.
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