I KORINTHIËRS 3

Die vleeslike gesindheid ’n oorsaak van verdeeldheid.

1 EN ek, broeders, kon met julle nie spreek soos met tgeestelike mense nie, maar soos met tvleeslike, soos met tklein kinders in Christus.

2 Ek het julle met tmelk gevoed, nie met vaste spys nie, twant julle was nog nie daartoe in staat nie, en julle is nou nog nie daartoe in staat nie,

3 omdat julle nog vleeslik is; want aangesien daar onder julle jaloersheid en ttwis en tweedrag is, is julle nie vleeslik nie en wandel julle nie na die mens nie?

4 Want tas die een sê: Ek is van Paulus; en die ander: Ek van tApollos — is julle nie vleeslik nie?

5 Wie is Paulus dan, en wie Apollos anders tas dienaars deur wie julle gelowig geword het? En tdit soos die Here aan elkeen gegee het.

6  tEk het geplant, tApollos het natgemaak, tmaar God het laat groei.

7 So is dan hy wat plant of hy wat natmaak, niks nie, maar God wat laat groei.

8 Maar hy wat plant en hy wat natmaak, is een, maar telkeen sal sy eie loon volgens sy eie arbeid ontvang.

Die gelowiges ’n gebou van God; Christus die fondament van die gebou.

9 WANT tons is medewerkers van God; die akker van God, tdie gebou van God is julle.

10 Volgens die genade van God wat aan my gegee is, het ek soos ’n bekwame boumeester die fondament gelê, en ’n ander bou daarop; maar elkeen moet oppas hoe hy daarop bou.

11 Want niemand kan ’n ander fondament lê as wat daar gelê is nie, tdit is Jesus Christus.

12 En as iemand op dié fondament bou goud, silwer, kosbare stene, hout, hooi, stoppels —

13  telkeen se werk sal aan die lig kom, want tdie dag sal dit aanwys, omdat dit tdeur vuur openbaar gemaak word; en die vuur sal elkeen se werk op die proef stel, hoedanig dit is.

14 As iemand se werk bly staan wat hy daarop gebou het, sal hy loon ontvang;

15 as iemand se werk verbrand word, tsal hy skade ly; alhoewel hy self gered sal word, maar soos deur vuur heen.

16  tWeet julle nie dat julle ’n tempel van God is en tdie Gees van God in julle woon nie?

17 As iemand die tempel van God skend, sal God hom skend; want die tempel van God is heilig, en dit is julle.

18  tLaat niemand homself mislei nie: tas iemand meen dat hy wys is onder julle in thierdie wêreld, laat hom dwaas word, sodat hy wys kan word;

19 want tdie wysheid van hierdie wêreld is dwaasheid by God; want daar is geskrywe: tHy wat die wyse mense in hulle listigheid vang;

20 en verder: tDie Here ken die gedagtes van die wyse mense, dat dit nietig is.

21  tLaat niemand dan op mense roem nie, want talles behoort aan julle;

22 of dit Paulus is of tApollos of I Kor. 1:12Céfas of die wêreld of lewe of dood of tteenswoordige of toekomstige dinge — alles behoort aan julle;
23 maar tjulle behoort aan Christus, en Christus aan God.

1 Corinthians 3

1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”t20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”t21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.