1 Corinthians 3 | BSB Bible Study

1 Corinthians 3:1 (BSB)
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:2 (BSB)
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 3:3 (BSB)
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

1 Corinthians 3:4 (BSB)
For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

1 Corinthians 3:5 (BSB)
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

1 Corinthians 3:6 (BSB)
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

1 Corinthians 3:7 (BSB)
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

1 Corinthians 3:8 (BSB)
He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

1 Corinthians 3:9 (BSB)
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

1 Corinthians 3:10 (BSB)
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

1 Corinthians 3:11 (BSB)
For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:12 (BSB)
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

1 Corinthians 3:13 (BSB)
his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

1 Corinthians 3:14 (BSB)
If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3:15 (BSB)
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

1 Corinthians 3:16 (BSB)
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17 (BSB)
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 3:18 (BSB)
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:19 (BSB)
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

1 Corinthians 3:20 (BSB)
And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

1 Corinthians 3:21 (BSB)
Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

1 Corinthians 3:22 (BSB)
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

1 Corinthians 3:23 (BSB)
and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

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