I Corinthians 3

¹ And I brothers, was unable to speak to you as to spiritual [ones], but as to fleshly as babes in Christ. ² I fed you milk, not [solid] food, for you were not yet able. But neither are you now yet able. ³ For you are yet fleshly. For where [there is] among you jealousy and strife, and divisions, aren't you fleshly and walking according to man? ⁴ For when anyone says: I am of Paul, but another: I [am] of Apollo, aren't you [being] men? ⁵ Who therefore is Apollo, or who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each [one] as the Lord gave. ⁶ I planted, Apollo watered, but God made [it] grow. ⁷ So that neither is the [one] planting anything nor the [one] watering, but [rather] the [one] making [it] grow—God. ⁸ So the [one] planting and the [one] watering are one [thing], and each will receive his own reward according to his own work. ⁹ For we are co-workers of God, you are the field of God, the building of God. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God given me as [a] wise masterbuilder have I placed the foundation, but another built upon [it] Let¹ each be seeing how he builds upon [it]. ¹¹ For another foundation no one is able to place besides the [one] having been laid, which is Christ Jesus. ¹² So if anyone builds upon the foundation [with] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, ¹³ the work of each will become manifest. For the day will show [it], because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each, what sort it is. ¹⁴ If any work abides which he built, he will receive reward. ¹⁵ If any work is burnt up, he will suffer loss² , but he himself will be saved, but thus as through fire. ¹⁶ Don't you know that you are [the] temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone corrupts the temple of God, God will corrupt this [one]. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

¹⁸ Let¹ no one be deceiving himself: if anyone supposes [he] is wise among you in this age, let¹ him become foolish, in order that he become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written:

[He is] the [one] grasping the wise in their craftiness.

²⁰ And again:

[The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise,
That they are futile.

²¹ So let¹ no one be boasting among men, for everything is yours, ²² whether of Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas³, or world, or zoe-life⁴ , or death, or [things] present, or [things] [about] to be, all [are] yours, ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

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¹imperative

²ZEMIOO "zeh-mi-AW-oh" (ζημιoω) to suffer the loss of something which one has previously possessed, with the emphasis on the hardship that this causes.

³another name for Peter

⁴from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.