1 Corinthians

according to their own labor. 9 For we are coworkers who belong to God; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10 I laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, by the grace God has given to me, and someone else is building on it. But let each person take care how he builds upon it. 11 For nobody can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each person’s work will become evident, because the day of judgment will disclose it. For it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If the work that anyone built upon the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, that person will suffer loss, but that particular person will be saved, however, only as one escaping through fire. 16 Don’t you know that youa are God’s temple and God’s Spirit dwells in you?b 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple. 18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks you are wise in the opinion of this age, then you must become “foolish” so that you may become wise. 19 For this world’s wisdom is foolishness in God’s sight.c As it is written: “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness.”d 20 And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are useless.”e 21 So let nobody boast about following a human. All things are yours— 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world or life or death, or things present or the things to come—all are yours, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.f

a “You”: The Greek is second-person plural, referring to all believers, the church as a whole. And verse 17. b Or “among you.” c Literally, “is foolishness with God.” d See Job 5:13. e See Psalm 94:11. f Literally, “you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.”