C.
The church, God's cultivated land and God's building
3:1-23
1.
Growth in life needed
vv. 1-9
1 Cor. 3
:1
3:1
And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to
1aspiritual men, but as to
2bfleshy, as to
3cinfants in Christ.
1 Cor. 3
:2
3:2
I 1gave you
2amilk to drink, not solid
bfood, for you were
cnot yet able
to receive it. But
3neither yet now are you able,
1 Cor. 3
:3
3:3
For you are still
afleshly. For if there is
1bjealousy and
cstrife among you, are you not fleshly and do you not walk
2according to
the manner of man?
1 Cor. 3
:4
3:4
For when someone says,
aI am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not men
of flesh?
1 Cor. 3
:5
3:5
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul?
aMinisters through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to
beach one
of them.
1 Cor. 3
:6
3:6
aI 1planted,
bApollos watered, but
cGod caused the growth.
1 Cor. 3
:7
3:7
So then
1neither is he who plants
aanything nor he who waters, but God who causes the growth.
1 Cor. 3
:8
3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but
aeach will receive his own
1breward according to his own
clabor.
1 Cor. 3
:9
3:9
For we are
1God's
afellow workers; you are God's
2bcultivated land, God's
cbuilding.
2.
Built with transformed materials, not with natural things
vv. 10-17
1 Cor. 3
:10
3:10
According to the
agrace of God given to me, as a wise
1master builder I have
blaid a
cfoundation, and
danother ebuilds upon
it. But let each man
2take heed how he
fbuilds upon
it.
1 Cor. 3
:11
3:11
For 1aanother foundation no one is able to lay besides
bthat which is laid, which is Jesus
cChrist.
1 Cor. 3
:12
3:12
1But if anyone builds upon the foundation
2gold, silver, precious stones,
3wood, grass, stubble,
1 Cor. 3
:13
3:13
The work of each will become
amanifest; for
1bthe day will declare
it, because it is revealed by
2cfire, and the fire itself will
dprove each one's work, of what sort it is.
1 Cor. 3
:14
3:14
If anyone's
1work which he has built upon
the foundation remains, he will receive a
2areward;
1 Cor. 3
:15
3:15
If anyone's
1work is consumed, he will suffer
2loss, but he himself will be
3asaved, yet so as
4through bfire.
1 Cor. 3
:16
3:16
Do you not know that you are the
1atemple of God, and
that the
bSpirit of God dwells in you?
1 Cor. 3
:17
3:17
If anyone
1adestroys the temple of God, God will
2destroy him; for the temple of God is
3holy,
and 4such are you.
3.
All things for the church and the church for Christ
vv. 18-23
1 Cor. 3
:18
3:18
Let no one
1adeceive himself; if anyone
2bthinks that he is
cwise among you in this age, let him
3become foolish that he may
4become wise.
1 Cor. 3
:19
3:19
For the wisdom of this world is
afoolishness with God; for it is written,
b"He grasps the wise in their craftiness'';
1 Cor. 3
:20
3:20
And again,
a"The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are
1vain.''
1 Cor. 3
:21
3:21
So then let no one
aboast in men, for
ball things are yours,
1 Cor. 3
:22
3:22
Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or
alife or death or things present or things to come;
1all are yours,
1 Cor. 3
:23
3:23
But you are
aChrist's, and Christ is
bGod's.
