1 Corinthians 3

1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.Cross-references: Matt 16:23 · Rom 7:14 · 1Cor 2:6 · 1Cor 2:14 · 1Cor 3:3 · 1Cor 14:20 · +4 more

2I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,Cross-references: John 16:12 · Heb 5:11 · 1Pet 2:2

3for 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?Cross-references: Hos 6:7 · Mark 7:21 · Rom 13:13 · 1Cor 1:11 · 1Cor 6:1 · 1Cor 11:18 · +9 more

4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?Cross-references: 1Cor 1:12 · 1Cor 3:3 · 1Cor 4:6

5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?Cross-references: Matt 25:15 · Luke 1:2 · John 3:27 · Rom 10:14 · Rom 12:3 · 1Cor 3:7 · +15 more

6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.Cross-references: Ps 62:9 · Ps 62:11 · Ps 92:13 · Ps 127:1 · Prov 11:25 · Isa 55:10 · +19 more

7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.Cross-references: Ps 115:1 · Isa 40:17 · Isa 41:29 · Dan 4:35 · John 15:5 · 1Cor 13:2 · +2 more

8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.Cross-references: Ps 62:12 · Dan 12:3 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:41 · Matt 16:27 · John 4:36 · +13 more

9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.Cross-references: Ps 65:9 · Ps 72:16 · Ps 80:8 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 5:1 · Isa 27:2 · +33 more

10According 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:9 · 2Chr 2:12 · Eccl 12:9 · Dan 12:3 · Zech 4:9 · Matt 7:24 · +26 more

11For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.Cross-references: Isa 28:16 · Matt 16:18 · Acts 4:11 · 2Cor 11:2 · Gal 1:7 · Eph 2:20 · +2 more

12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,Cross-references: Ps 19:10 · Ps 119:72 · Prov 8:10 · Prov 16:16 · Prov 30:6 · Isa 54:11 · +24 more

13each 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.Cross-references: Isa 8:20 · Isa 28:17 · Jer 23:29 · Ezek 13:10 · Zech 13:9 · Mal 3:17 · +13 more

14If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.Cross-references: Dan 12:3 · Matt 24:45 · Matt 25:21 · 1Cor 3:8 · 1Cor 4:5 · 1Thess 2:19 · +4 more

15If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.Cross-references: Ps 66:12 · Amos 4:11 · Zech 3:2 · Acts 27:21 · Acts 27:44 · 1Cor 3:12 · +4 more

16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?Cross-references: Ezek 36:27 · John 14:17 · Rom 6:3 · Rom 8:9 · Rom 8:11 · 1Cor 5:6 · +14 more

17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.Cross-references: Gen 28:17 · Ex 3:5 · Lev 15:31 · Lev 20:3 · Num 19:20 · 1Chr 29:3 · +11 more

18Let 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.Cross-references: Prov 3:5 · Prov 3:7 · Prov 5:7 · Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:21 · Isa 44:20 · +21 more

19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”Cross-references: Ex 1:10 · Ex 18:11 · 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 16:23 · 2Sam 17:14 · 2Sam 17:23 · +11 more

20And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”Cross-references: Job 11:11 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 94:11 · Rom 1:21 · Col 2:8

21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,Cross-references: Jer 9:23 · Rom 4:13 · Rom 8:28 · Rom 8:32 · 1Cor 1:12 · 1Cor 3:4 · +4 more

22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,Cross-references: Rom 8:37 · 1Cor 1:12 · 1Cor 3:5 · 1Cor 9:19 · 2Cor 4:5 · Eph 4:11 · +1 more

23and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.Cross-references: Matt 17:5 · John 17:9 · John 17:18 · John 17:21 · Rom 14:8 · 1Cor 6:19 · +9 more