Book of Common Prayer

¹⁴ The person who does not have the Spirit does not receive the blessings of the Spirit of God. He thinks they are foolish. He cannot understand them because only people who have the Spirit of God can test them.

¹⁵ He who has the Spirit of God tests all things. But others cannot test him.

¹⁶ The holy writings say: `Who knows the mind of the Lord so that he may teach him?' As for us, we really do have the mind of Christ.

3 My brothers, I could not talk to you at first as to people who have the Spirit of God. But I talked to you as people who have the spirit of this world. I talked to you as people who are very new-born, baby Christians.

² I gave you milk to drink, not food to eat. You were not ready for food. And even now you are not ready for it.

³ You still have the spirit of this world in you. You are jealous of each other and you are quarrelling. The spirit of this world is still in you and you live like people of this world.

⁴ One says, `I belong to Paul.' Another says, `I belong to Apollos.' Does not that show that you have the spirit of this world?

⁵ After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? We both work for God. You believed because of the work we did. The Lord gave each of us our work to do.

⁶ I planted the seed. Apollos put water on the seed. But God made the seed grow.

⁷ So then the man who plants is nothing and the man who waters is nothing. God alone makes the seed grow.

⁸ The man who plants and the man who waters are equal. Each one will be paid for his own work.

⁹ We work together for God. You are God's farm. You are God's house.

¹⁰ I built the lower walls of the house because God showed me the best way to do it. Now another man builds on top of this foundation. Each man must take care how he builds on it.

¹¹ Jesus Christ himself is the foundation. No one can make another one.

¹² People build with gold, silver, very fine stones, wood, grass, or straw on top of the foundation.

¹³ But the day will come when everyone's work can be seen. Their work will be tested by fire and the fire will show what kind of work each one did.

¹⁴ If the work a man did is not burned up in the fire, he will be paid for his work.

¹⁵ But if a man's work is burned up, he will lose everything. He himself will be saved, like a man pulled out of the fire.

5 When Jesus saw the many people, he went up on a hill. He sat down and his disciples came to him.

² He began to teach the people.

³ He said, `God makes happy those who know that they need him. The kingdom of heaven is for them.

⁴ `God makes happy those who are sad. They will have comfort.

⁵ `God makes happy those who quietly trust him and do not try to get their own way. The world will belong to them.

⁶ `God makes happy those who are hungry and thirsty for what is right and good. They will be filled.

⁷ `God makes happy those who are kind. He will be kind to them.

⁸ `God makes happy those who have clean hearts. They will see God.

⁹ `God makes happy those who make peace between people. They will be called God's sons.

¹⁰ `God makes happy those who have trouble for doing what is right. The kingdom of heaven is for them.