Prva poslanica Korinæanima 3

Pavao i Apolon, Kristovi sluge

1 Draga braćo i sestre, dok sam bio s vama, nisam s vama mogao razgovarati kao s duhovnim, zrelim kršćanima, nego kao s tjelesnima koji pripadaju ovome svijetu, kao s nejačadi u Kristu.2 Morao sam vas hraniti mlijekom, a ne čvrstom hranom jer ju niste mogli podnositi. A ne možete ni sada3 jer vama još vlada tjelesna, grešna narav. Zavidite jedni drugima i prepirete se. Ne dokazuje li to da ste još tjelesni?

4 Kad jedan od vas kaže: "Ja sam Pavlov sljedbenik", a drugi: "Ja sam Apolonov", ne ponašate li se kao ljudi koji ne pripadaju Gospodinu?
5 A tko je Apolon i tko je Pavao da biste se zbog nas prepirali? Ta mi samo služimo Gospodinu kako nam je dao - da kroz nas povjerujete u njega.6 Ja sam u vaša srca posijao sjeme, Apolon ga je zalio, ali Bog je dao da poraste.7 Nije važan ni onaj tko sije ni onaj tko zalijeva, već Bog koji daje rasti.8 Tko sije i tko zalijeva, jedno su, ali svaki će primiti plaću prema vlastitom trudu.

9 Jer mi smo samo Božji suradnici, a vi niste naša, već Božja njiva, Božja građevina.
10 Po Božjoj sam milosti položio temelj kao mudar graditelj. Drugi nadoziđuju. Ali svatko mora paziti kako nadoziđuje!11 Jer nitko ne može postaviti neki drugi temelj osim onoga koji je već postavljen - a to je Isus Krist.12 Na njega se može nadozidati zlatom, srebrom, dragim kamenjem, drvom, sijenom ili slamom.13 Ali svačije će djelo izići na vidjelo na Dan suda kad bude iskušano ognjem. Tada će se pokazati kakvo je čije djelo.14 Graditelj čije djelo ostane, primit će nagradu.

15 Ali kome djelo izgori, pretrpjet će veliku štetu. On sam spasit će se, ali kao kroz vatru.
16 Ne shvaćate li da ste vi Božji hram i da Božji Duh prebiva u vama?

17 Razara li tko Božji hram, njega će Bog razoriti. Jer Božji hram je svet - a to ste vi, kršćani.
18 Nemojte se zavaravati. Drži li tko od vas sebe pametnim prema mjerilima ovoga svijeta, morat će postati ludim da bi bio mudar prema Božjim mjerilima.

19 Jer mudrost ovoga svijeta pred Bogom je ludost. U Svetome pismu piše:
"On hvata mudre u zamku njihova vlastita lukavstva."20 I još:
"Gospodin poznaje umovanje mudrih; ono je isprazno."21 Zato se nemojte ponositi time što slijedite nekog vođu. Sve je vaše:22 i Pavao i Apolon i Petar, i cijeli svijet, i život i smrt, i sadašnjost i budućnost. Sve to pripada vama,

23 vi pripadate Kristu, a Krist Bogu.

1 Corinthians 3

Immaturity and Self-deception

1 So, brothers and sisters,t I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh,t as infants in Christ.2 I fed you milk,s not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,3 for you are still influenced by the flesh.t For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?t

4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?t
5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.t6 I planted,s Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything,t nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as one,t but each will receive his reward according to his work.9 We are coworkers belonging to God.t You are God’s field, God’s building.10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.11 For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,s13 each builder’st work will be plainly seen, for the Dayts will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the firess will test what kind of work each has done.14 If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss.t He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temples and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
18 Guard against self-deception, each of you.t If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”s20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”s21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals!t For everything belongs to you,22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.