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1 Corinthians 3 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:1 -

However, brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as to spiritual people, but [only] as to [fn]worldly people [dominated by human nature], mere infants [in the new life] in Christ!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:2 - I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not ready.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:3 - You are still [fn]worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not [fn]unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:4 - For when one of you says, “I am [a disciple] of Paul,” and another, “I am [a disciple] of Apollos,” are you not [proving yourselves unchanged, just] ordinary people?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:5

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What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Just servants through whom you believed [in Christ], even as the Lord appointed to each his task.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:6 - I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:7 - So neither is the one who plants nor the one who waters anything, but [only] God who causes the growth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8 - He who plants and he who waters are one [in importance and esteem, working toward the same purpose]; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:9 - For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.

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According to the [remarkable] grace of God which was given to me [to prepare me for my task], like a skillful master builder I laid a foundation, and now another is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:11 - for no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:12 - But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:13 - each one’s work will be clearly shown [for what it is]; for the day [of judgment] will disclose it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality and character and worth of each person’s work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:14 - If any person’s work which he has built [on this foundation, that is, any outcome of his effort] remains [and survives this test], he will receive a reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:15 - But if any person’s work is burned up [by the test], he will suffer the loss [of his reward]; yet he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has barely escaped] through fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:16

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[fn]Do you not know and understand that you [the church] are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells [permanently] in you [collectively and individually]?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:17 - If anyone destroys the temple of God [corrupting it with false doctrine], God will destroy the destroyer; for the temple of God is holy (sacred), and that is what you are.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:18

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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [discarding his worldly pretensions and acknowledging his lack of wisdom], so that he may become [truly] wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness (absurdity, stupidity) before God; for it is written [in Scripture], “[He is] THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE and CLEVER IN THEIR CRAFTINESS;”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:20 - and again, “THE LORD KNOWS THE THOUGHTS of the [humanly] wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:21 - So let no one boast in men [about their wisdom, or of having this or that one as a leader]. For all things are yours,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:22 - whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter) or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things are yours,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:23 - and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.
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AMP Footnotes
Lit fleshly.
Lit fleshly.
Lit fleshly.
Paul repeats “Do you not know” nine more times, each time followed by an important truth (cf 5:6; 6:2, 3, 9, 15, 16, 19; 9:13, 24).
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