1. Korinťanom 3
1 A ja som vám, bratia, nemohol hovoriť ako duchovným, ale ako telesným, ako nedospelým v Kristovi.2 Mlieko som vám dával piť namiesto pevného pokrmu, lebo by ste ho neboli zniesli. Ale ani teraz ešte neznesiete,3 lebo ste ešte stále telesní. Veď keď je medzi vami žiarlivosť a svár, to nie ste telesní a nežijete len po ľudsky?4 Keď jeden hovorí: „Ja som Pavlov,“ a druhý: „Ja Apollov,“ či nie ste ľudia?5 Veď čože je Apollo? A čo Pavol? Služobníci, prostredníctvom ktorých ste uverili, a každý taký, ako mu dal Pán.6 Ja som sadil, Apollo polieval, ale vzrast dal Boh.7 A tak ani ten, čo sadí, nie je nič, ani ten, čo polieva, ale Boh, ktorý dáva vzrast.8 Kto sadí i kto polieva, sú jedno, ale každý dostane vlastnú odmenu podľa toho, ako pracoval.9 Lebo my sme Boží spolupracovníci a vy ste Božia »roľa a Božia stavba.10 Podľa Božej milosti, ktorú som dostal, položil som ako múdry staviteľ základ a iný na ňom stavia. Ale každý nech si dáva pozor, ako na ňom stavia.11 Lebo nik nemôže položiť iný základ okrem toho, čo je už položený, a je ním Ježiš Kristus.12 Či niekto na tomto základe stavia zo zlata, striebra, drahých kameňov, dreva, sena či slamy,13 dielo každého vyjde najavo. Ten deň to ukáže, lebo sa zjaví v ohni a oheň preskúša dielo každého, aké je.14 Čie dielo, ktoré naň postavil, zostane, ten dostane odmenu.15 Čie dielo zhorí, ten utrpí škodu, on sa však zachráni, ale tak ako cez oheň.16 Neviete, že ste Boží chrám a že vo vás prebýva Boží Duch?17 Kto by teda Boží chrám zničil, toho Boh zničí. Lebo Boží chrám je svätý - a ním ste vy.18 Nech nik neklame sám seba! Ak si niekto z vás myslí, že je v tomto veku múdry, nech sa stane bláznom, aby bol múdry.19 Lebo múdrosť tohto sveta je pred Bohom bláznovstvom. Veď je napísané: „On chytá múdrych v ich chytráctve“20 a zasa: „Pán pozná myšlienky múdrych a vie, aké sú márne.“21 A tak nech sa nik nevychvaľuje ľuďmi. Veď všetko je vaše:22 či Pavol alebo Apollo, Kéfas, svet, život i smrť, prítomnosť aj budúcnosť - všetko je vaše,23 ale vy ste Kristovi a Kristus Boží.
1 CORINTHIANS 3
Working Together for God
1 My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned. 2 t So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot,
3 because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves you are not spiritual and you are acting like the people of this world.
4 t Some of you say you follow me, and others claim to follow Apollos. Isn't this how ordinary people behave? 5 Apollos and I are merely servants who helped you to have faith. It was the Lord who made it all happen. 6 t I planted the seeds, Apollos watered them, but God made them sprout and grow. 7 What matters isn't those who planted or watered, but God who made the plants grow. 8 The one who plants is just as important as the one who waters. And each one will be paid for what they do.
9 Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.Only One Foundation
10 God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build, 11 because Christ is the only foundation. 12-13 Whatever we build on this foundation will be tested by fire on the day of judgment. Then everyone will find out if we have used gold, silver, and precious stones, or wood, hay, and straw. 14 We will be rewarded if our building is left standing.
15 But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames.
16 t All of you surely know you are God's temple and his Spirit lives in you.
17 Together you are God's holy temple, and God will destroy anyone who destroys his temple.
18 Don't fool yourselves! If any of you think you are wise in the things of this world, you will have to become foolish before you can be truly wise. 19 t This is because God considers the wisdom of this world to be foolish. It is just as the Scriptures say, “God catches the wise when they try to outsmart him.” 20 t The Scriptures also say, “The Lord knows that the plans made by wise people are useless.” 21-22 So stop bragging about what anyone has done. Paul and Apollos and Petert all belong to you. In fact, everything is yours, including the world, life, death, the present, and the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.