1 Corinthians 3
Names of God Bible
You Belong to Christ
3 Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as people still influenced by your corrupt nature. You were infants in your faith in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink. I didn’t give you solid food because you weren’t ready for it. Even now you aren’t ready for it 3 because you’re still influenced by your corrupt nature.
When you are jealous and quarrel among yourselves, aren’t you influenced by your corrupt nature and living by human standards? 4 When some of you say, “I follow Paul” and others say, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting like sinful humans? 5 Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are servants who helped you come to faith. Each did what the Lord gave him to do. 6 I planted, and Apollos watered, but God made it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is important because only God makes it grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own work. 9 We are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field.
You are God’s building. 10 As a skilled and experienced builder, I used the gift[a] that God gave me to lay the foundation for that building. However, someone else is building on it. Each person must be careful how he builds on it. 11 After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that foundation is Yeshua Christ. 12 People may build on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw. 13 The day will make what each one does clearly visible because fire will reveal it. That fire will determine what kind of work each person has done. 14 If what a person has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If his work is burned up, he will suffer the loss. However, he will be saved, though it will be like going through a fire.
16 Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him because God’s temple is holy. You are that holy temple!
18 Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise. 19 The wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. That’s why Scripture says, “God catches the wise in their cleverness.” 20 Again Scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are pointless.”
21 So don’t brag about people. Everything belongs to you. 22 Whether it is Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life or death, present or future things, everything belongs to you. 23 You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:10 Or “grace.”
1 Corinthians 3
New International Version
The Church and Its Leaders
3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit(A) but as people who are still worldly(B)—mere infants(C) in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food,(D) for you were not yet ready for it.(E) Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling(F) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”(G) are you not mere human beings?
5 What, after all, is Apollos?(H) And what is Paul? Only servants,(I) through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed,(J) Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.(K) 9 For we are co-workers in God’s service;(L) you are God’s field,(M) God’s building.(N)
10 By the grace God has given me,(O) I laid a foundation(P) as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.(Q) 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is,(R) because the Day(S) will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.(T) 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.(U) 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.(V)
16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple(W) and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?(X) 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise(Y) by the standards of this age,(Z) you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness(AA) in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”[a];(AB) 20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”[b](AC) 21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders!(AD) All things are yours,(AE) 22 whether Paul or Apollos(AF) or Cephas[c](AG) or the world or life or death or the present or the future(AH)—all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ,(AI) and Christ is of God.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 Job 5:13
- 1 Corinthians 3:20 Psalm 94:11
- 1 Corinthians 3:22 That is, Peter
1 Corintios 3
La Biblia de las Américas
Divisiones de la iglesia de Corinto
3 Así que yo, hermanos, no pude hablaros como a espirituales(A), sino como a carnales(B), como a niños(C) en Cristo. 2 Os di a beber leche, no alimento sólido(D), porque todavía no podíais recibirlo(E). En verdad, ni aun ahora podéis, 3 porque todavía sois carnales. Pues habiendo celos y contiendas(F) entre vosotros, ¿no sois carnales y andáis como hombres[a](G)? 4 Porque cuando uno dice: Yo soy de Pablo, y otro: Yo soy de Apolos(H), ¿no sois simplemente hombres(I)? 5 ¿Qué es, pues, Apolos? Y ¿qué es Pablo? Servidores(J) mediante los cuales vosotros habéis creído, según el Señor dio oportunidad a cada uno(K). 6 Yo planté(L), Apolos(M) regó, pero Dios ha dado el crecimiento(N). 7 Así que ni el que planta ni el que riega es algo, sino Dios, que da el crecimiento. 8 Ahora bien, el que planta y el que riega son una misma cosa, pero cada uno recibirá su propia recompensa[b] conforme a su propia labor(O). 9 Porque nosotros somos colaboradores(P) de Dios, y vosotros sois labranza(Q) de Dios, edificio de Dios(R).
Jesucristo, único cimiento
10 Conforme a la gracia de Dios que me fue dada(S), yo, como sabio arquitecto, puse el fundamento(T), y otro edifica sobre él(U). Pero cada uno tenga cuidado cómo edifica encima. 11 Pues nadie puede poner otro fundamento que el que ya está puesto, el cual es Jesucristo(V). 12 Ahora bien, si sobre este fundamento alguno edifica con oro, plata, piedras preciosas[c], madera, heno, paja, 13 la obra de cada uno se hará evidente(W); porque el día la dará a conocer, pues con fuego será revelada; el fuego mismo probará la calidad de la obra de cada uno[d](X). 14 Si permanece la obra de alguno que ha edificado sobre el fundamento, recibirá recompensa(Y). 15 Si la obra de alguno es consumida por el fuego, sufrirá pérdida; sin embargo, él será salvo, aunque así como por fuego(Z).
Vosotros sois templo de Dios
16 ¿No sabéis que sois templo[e] de Dios y que el Espíritu de Dios habita en vosotros(AA)? 17 Si alguno destruye el templo[f] de Dios, Dios lo destruirá a él, porque el templo[g] de Dios es santo, y eso es lo que vosotros sois[h].
Vosotros sois de Cristo
18 Nadie se engañe a sí mismo(AB). Si alguno de vosotros se cree sabio según este mundo[i](AC), hágase necio a fin de llegar a ser sabio(AD). 19 Porque la sabiduría de este mundo es necedad ante Dios(AE). Pues escrito está: Él es el que prende a los sabios en su propia astucia(AF). 20 Y también: El Señor conoce los razonamientos de los sabios, los cuales son inútiles(AG). 21 Así que nadie se jacte en los hombres(AH), porque todo es vuestro(AI): 22 ya sea Pablo, o Apolos, o Cefas(AJ), o el mundo, o la vida, o la muerte(AK), o lo presente, o lo por venir, todo es vuestro, 23 y vosotros de Cristo(AL), y Cristo de Dios(AM).
Footnotes
- 1 Corintios 3:3 Lit., conforme al hombre
- 1 Corintios 3:8 O, propio salario
- 1 Corintios 3:12 O, costosas
- 1 Corintios 3:13 Lit., probará de qué clase es la obra de cada uno
- 1 Corintios 3:16 O, santuario
- 1 Corintios 3:17 O, santuario
- 1 Corintios 3:17 O, santuario
- 1 Corintios 3:17 Lit., el cual sois vosotros
- 1 Corintios 3:18 O, siglo
1 Corinthians 3
New King James Version
Sectarianism Is Carnal
3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to (A)babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with (B)milk and not with solid food; (C)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
Watering, Working, Warning
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but (D)ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 (E)I planted, (F)Apollos watered, (G)but God gave the increase. 7 So then (H)neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, (I)and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For (J)we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are (K)God’s building. 10 (L)According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid (M)the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than (N)that which is laid, (O)which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day (P)will declare it, because (Q)it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 (R)Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone [b]defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Avoid Worldly Wisdom
18 (S)Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, (T)“He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; 20 and again, (U)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For (V)all things are yours: 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. 23 And (W)you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit. walking according to man
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 destroys
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