{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/1-corinthians/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:39:27.338Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For when one says, |I follow Paul,| and another, |I follow Apollos,| aren't you fleshly?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, |He has taken the wise in their craftiness.|"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And again, |The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.|"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 3 (WEB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 3](https://primebible.com/web/1-corinthians/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/1-corinthians/3 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}