I Corinthians Capítulo 3

This letter specifically addresses the problems that the Corinthian cruch was facing: dissension, immorality, problems with the form of public worship and confusion about the gifts of the Spirit.

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3 : 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

3 : 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for till now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

3 : 3 For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

3 : 4 For while one said, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

3 : 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

3 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

3 : 7 So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

3 : 8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

3 : 9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building.

3 : 10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

3 : 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

3 : 12 Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

3 : 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

3 : 14 If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

3 : 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

3 : 16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

3 : 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

3 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

3 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

3 : 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

3 : 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

3 : 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;

3 : 23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.