3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in christ.
3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.
3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
3:5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye 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 planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
[1] {one} Paul refutes the notion that he and Cephas and apollos are a variance, mere theologians and rival founders of sects: they ar "one. # 1Co 3:22 16:12
3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth 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 upon 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 hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
[2] {reward} God, in the N.T. Scriptures, offers to the lost, salvation, and, fo the faithful service of the saved, rewards. The passages are easil distinguished by remembering that salvation is invariably spoken o as a free gift (e.g. # Joh 4:10 Ro 6:23 Eph 2:8, while rewards are earned by work # Mt 10:42 Lu 19:17 1Co 9:24,25 2Ti 4:7,8 Re 2:10 22:1 A further distinction is that salvation is a present possessio # Lu 7:50 Joh 3:36 5:24 6:4 while rewards are a future attainment, to be given at the coming o the Lor # Mt 16:27 2Ti 4:8 Re 22:12
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 ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth 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] ye are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth 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 taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
