mnt - 1Corinthians:3-4

mnt@1Corinthians:3:1 @ As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:2 @ I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:3 @ You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:4 @ When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:5 @ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:6 @ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:8 @ Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:9 @ For we are Gods fellow workers; and you are Gods field, you are Gods building.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master- builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:11 @ The foundation is already laid - Jesus Christ - and no man can lay another.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:12 @ On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each mans work will be made manifest.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:13 @ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each mans work, of what quality it is.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:14 @ If any mans work - the building he has made - stands the test, he will be rewarded.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If any mans work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:16 @ Do you not know what you are Gods sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

mnt@1Corinthians:3:17 @ If any one tear down Gods sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:18 @ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:19 @ For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in Gods sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

mnt@1Corinthians:3:20 @ and again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, how futile they are.

mnt@1Corinthians:3:21 @ So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

mnt@1Corinthians:3:22 @ Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things present or things to come; all things are yours;

mnt@1Corinthians:3:23 @ and you are Christs, and Christ is Gods.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:1 @ Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:2 @ Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:3 @ But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:4 @ Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:5 @ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of mens hearts. Then each mans due praise will come to him from God.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:6 @ Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:7 @ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

mnt@1Corinthians:4:8 @ But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:9 @ But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:10 @ For Christs sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:11 @ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:12 @ Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:13 @ When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

mnt@1Corinthians:4:14 @ I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:15 @ For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:16 @ I beg you then to imitate my example.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:17 @ With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:18 @ Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:20 @ For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power.

mnt@1Corinthians:4:21 @ Which do you want? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?

mnt@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken his fathers wife!