1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15

English Standard Version

¹⁴The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(A)folly to him, and ^(B)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵The ^(C)spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶^(D)“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But ^(E)we have the mind of Christ.

Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,^[a] could not address you as ^(F)spiritual people, but as ^(G)people of the flesh, as ^(H)infants in Christ. ²^(I)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^(J)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, ³for you are still of the flesh. For while there is ^(K)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? ⁴For ^(L)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” ^(M)are you not being merely human?

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? ^(N)Servants through whom you believed, ^(O)as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶^(P)I planted, ^(Q)Apollos watered, ^(R)but God gave the growth. ⁷So ^(S)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 ^(T)will receive his wages according to his labor. ⁹For we are ^(U)God's fellow workers. You are God's field, ^(V)God's building.

¹⁰^(W)According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled^[b] master builder I laid a ^(X)foundation, and ^(Y)someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹For no one can lay a ^(Z)foundation other ^(AA)than that which is laid, ^(AB)which is Jesus Christ. ¹²Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ¹³^(AC)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed ^(AD)by fire, and ^(AE)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ^(AF)he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, ^(AG)but only as through fire.