1 Corinthians 3:3-11
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3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is (A)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For (B)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” (C)are you not being merely human?
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? (D)Servants through whom you believed, (E)as the Lord assigned to each. 6 (F)I planted, (G)Apollos watered, (H)but God gave the growth. 7 So (I)neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each (J)will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are (K)God's fellow workers. You are God's field, (L)God's building.
10 (M)According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled[a] master builder I laid a (N)foundation, and (O)someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a (P)foundation other (Q)than that which is laid, (R)which is Jesus Christ.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:10 Or wise
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