The Concordant Literal New Testament

Paul To The Corinthians (I.)

¹ And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshy, as to minors in Christ.
² Milk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Nay, still, not even now are you able,
³ for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?
⁴ For whenever anyone may be saying, "I, indeed, am of Paul," yet another, "I, of Apollos," will he not be fleshly?
⁵ What, then, is Apollos? Now what is Paul? Servants are they, through whom you believe, and as the Lord gives to each.
⁶ I plant, Apollos irrigates, but God makes it grow up.
⁷ So that, neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is irrigating, but God Who makes it grow up.
⁸ Now he who is planting and he who is irrigating are for one thing. Yet each will be getting his own wages according to his own toil.
⁹ For God's fellow workers are we. God's farm, God's building, are you.
¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it.
¹¹ For other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
¹² Now if anyone is building on this foundation gold and silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
¹³ each one's work will become apparent, for the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire. And the fire, it will be testing each one's work -- what kind it is.
¹⁴ If anyone's work will be remaining which he builds on it, he will get wages.
¹⁵ If anyone's work shall be burned up, he will forfeit it, yet he shall be saved, yet thus, as through fire.
¹⁶ Are you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you?
¹⁷ If anyone is corrupting the temple of God, God will be corrupting him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are.
¹⁸ Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he may be becoming wise,
¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is stupidity with God. For it is written, "He is clutching the wise in their craftiness."
²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.
²¹ So that, let no one be boasting in men, for all is yours,
²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or that which is impending -- all is yours,
²³ yet you are Christ's, yet Christ is God's.

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