1 Corinthians 3:5–15

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. ⁷So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.^{* 9}For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.^*

¹⁰According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.^{* 11}For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.^{* 12}Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—¹³the work of each builder will become visible, for the day^m will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.^{* 14}If the work that someone has built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a wage. ¹⁵If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.