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1 Corinthians 3

3 Paul rebuketh the sects and authors thereof. 7 No man ought to attribute his salvation to the ministers, but to God. 10 That they beware erroneous doctrines. 11 Christ is the foundation of his Church. 16 The dignity and office both of the ministers and also of all the faithful.
1.And I could not speak unto you, brethren, as unto spiritual men, but as unto carnal, even as unto ababes in Christ.
2.I gave you milk to drink, and not meat: for ye were not yet able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3.For ye are yet carnal: for where as there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4.For when one saith, I am Paul’s, and another, I am Apollos’, are ye not carnal?
5.Who is Paul then? and who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, and as the Lord gave to every man?
6.I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7.So then, neither is he that planteth, any thing, neither he that watreth, but God that giveth the increase.
8.And he that planteth, and he that watreth, are bone, *and every man shall receive his wages, according to his labour.
9.For we together are God’s clabourers: ye are God’s husbandry, and God’s building.
10.According to the grace of God given to me, as a skillful master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let every man dtake heed how he buildeth upon it.
11.For other foundation can no man lay, then that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12.And if any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble,
13.Every man’s work shalbe made manifest: for the eday shall declare it, because it shalbe revealed by the ffire: and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14.If any man’s work, that he hath built upon, abide, he shall receive wages.
15.If any man’s work burn, he shall gloose, but he hshalbe isafe him self: nevertheless yet as it were by the fire.
16.*Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17.If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holie, which ye are.
18.Let no man deceive him self. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him be a fool, that he may be wise.
19.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, *He catcheth the wise kin their own craftiness.
20.*And again, The Lord knoweth that the thoughts of the wise be vain.
21.Therefore let no man lrejoice in men: for all things are yours.
22.Whether it be Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death: whether they be things present, or things to come, even all are yours,
23.And ye Christ’s, and Christ God’s.

Notes

1-a.
Being ingrafted in Christ by faith, we begin to move by his Spirit, and as we profit in faith, we grow up to a ripe age. And here let him take heed that teaches, lest for milk he give poison: for milk and strong meat in effect are one, but only differ in manner and form.
8-*.
Psal. 62.12, Gal. 6.5.
8-b.
He charges them with two fautes: the one, that they attributed too much to the ministers, and the other, that they preferred one minister to another.
9-c.
So made by his grace.
10-d.
He reproves the ministers of Corinth, as teachers of curious doctrines and questions.
13-e.
Or the time: which is, when the light of the truth shall expel the darkness of ignorance, then the curious ostentation of man’s wisdom shall be brought to nought.
13-f.
By the trial of God’s Spirit.
15-g.
Both his labour and reward.
15-h.
He reproves them not as false apostles, but as curious teachers of human sciences, as they which looking at the simplicity of God’s word, preach philosophical speculations.
15-i.
As touching his life, if he hold fast the foundation.
16-*.
Chap. 6.19, 2 Cor. 6.16.
19-*.
Job 5.13.
19-k.
When they themselves are entangled in the same snares, which they laid for others.
20-*.
Psal. 94.11.
21-l.
But in God who works by his ministers to his own glory and the comfort of his Church.