# 1 Corinthians 3 (New King James Version)
Sectarianism Is Carnal

##### Chapter 3
###### 1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual _people_ but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.  
###### 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able _to receive it,_ and even now you are still not able;  
###### 3 for you are still carnal. For where _there are_ envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like _mere_ men?  
###### 4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I _am_ of Apollos," are you not carnal?Watering, Working, Warning

###### 5 Who then is Paul, and who _is_ Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?  
###### 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 one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

###### 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, _you are_ God's building.  
###### 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.  
###### 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  
###### 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation _with_ gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,  
###### 13 each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.  
###### 14 If anyone's work which he has built on _it_ endures, he will receive a reward.  
###### 15 If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

###### 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and _that_ the Spirit of God dwells in you?  
###### 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which _temple_ you are.Avoid Worldly Wisdom

###### 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, 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 catches the wise in their _own_ craftiness";  
###### 20 and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."  
###### 21 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.