1 I could not, friends, speak to you as spiritual persons but as fleshly people, for you are still infants in Christ.
2 I gave you milk and not solid food, for you were not ready for it and up to now you cannot receive it
3 for you are still of the flesh. As long as there is jealousy and strife, what can I say but that you are at the level of the flesh and behave like ordinary people.
4 While one says: "I follow Paul," and the other: "I follow Apollos," what are you but people still at a human level?
5 For what is Apollos? What is Paul? They are ministers and through them you believed, as it was given by the Lord to each of them.
6 I planted, Apollos watered the plant, but God made it grow.
7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who makes the plant grow.
8 The one who plants and the one who waters work to the same end, and the Lord will pay each according to their work.
9 We are fellow-workers with God, but you are God's field and building.
10 I, as a good architect, according to the capacity given to me, I laid the foundation, and another is to build upon it. Each one must be careful how to build upon it.
11 No one can lay a foundation other than the one which is already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Then if someone builds with gold upon this foundation, another with silver and precious stones, or with wood, bamboo or straw,
13 the work of each one will be shown for what it is. The day of Judgment will reveal it, because the fire will make everything known. The fire will test the work of everyone.
14 If your work withstands the fire, you will be rewarded;
15 but if your work becomes ashes, you will pay for it. You will be saved, but it will be as if passing through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God's temple, and that God's Spirit abides within you?
17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy, and you are this temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If anyone of you considers himself wise in the ways of the world, let him become a fool, so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's eyes. To this, Scripture says: God catches the wise in their own wisdom.
20 It also says: The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is useless.
21 Because of this, let no one become an admirer of humans, for everything belongs to you,
22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas - life, death, the present and the future. Everything is yours,
23 and you, you belong to Christ, and Christ is of God.
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Chapter 3 of 1 Corinthians addresses the question of spiritual maturity and the construction of the church as a spiritual building. Paul urges Corinthians to set aside envy and divisions caused by following different religious leaders and uniting in Christ. He teaches that religious leaders are only servants of God and that it is God who grows the church. Paul also warns of the importance of building on the foundation of Christ and the need to get rid of anything that can destroy God's work.
Ephesians 2:19-20: "As soon as you are no longer foreign, nor stranger, but fellow citizens of the saints and the family of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, being Jesus Christ himself the cornerstone." This verse highlights the importance of the foundation of Christ and the apostles in the construction of the Church as a spiritual building.
Psalm 127:1: "If the Lord does not build the house, in vain work those who build it; if the Lord does not keep the city, in vain watches the sentry." This verse emphasizes the need for God's presence and work in the construction of any spiritual work.
1 Peter 2:5: "And also, as living stones, you are built Holy Spiritual House and Priesthood, to offer pleasant spiritual sacrifices to God for Jesus Christ." This verse highlights the participation of believers in the construction of the Church as a spiritual building, being themselves living stones that make up the spiritual house.
Matthew 7:24-25: "Everyone, for, who listens to these words and practices them, I will resemble him to the prudent man, who built his house over the rock. The winds and hit with a moment against that house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. " This verse emphasizes the importance of building on a solid and resistant foundation, as well as in the construction of the church as a spiritual building.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13: "For, just as the body is one and has many members, and all members, many, are one body, so is Christ as well. For we were all baptized in a spirit, forming A body, whether Jews, and Greeks, or servants, and free, and we have all drunk from one spirit. " This verse highlights the importance of unity among believers and everyone's participation in the construction of the Church as a spiritual building.
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