God’s Fellow Workers
1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly — as infants in Christ.+ 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,+ 3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?+ 4For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?+ 5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role .+ 6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.+ 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.+ 8He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose , and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.+ 9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.+Christ Our Foundation
Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8
10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.+ 11For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.+ 12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,+ 13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.+ 14If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.+ 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.+God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20
16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?+ 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.+ 18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.+ 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”+ 20And again, “ The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”+ 21Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,+ 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,+ 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.+