1 Corinthians 3

¹And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

²I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

³Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

⁴For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

⁵What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

⁶I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

⁷So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

⁸Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

⁹For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

¹⁰In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

¹¹For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

¹²But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;