1 Corinthians 3:6-20
English Standard Version
Chapter 3
6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9For we are God 's fellow workers. You are God 's field, God 's building.
10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
11For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw —
13each one 's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
15If anyone 's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16Do you not know that you are God 's temple and that God 's Spirit dwells in you?
17If anyone destroys God 's temple, God will destroy him. For God 's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
20and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."