Gatekeepers P5
- 1 Corinthians 3:16 (MSG) You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?
- 1 Corinthians 3:1-23 (NKJV) “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?
- 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.
- 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.”
