1 Corinthians 3:5–15

Watering, Working, Warning

⁵Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ^dministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? ^6eI planted, ^fApollos watered, ^gbut God gave the increase. ⁷So then ^hneither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are one, ⁱand each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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