1 Corinthians 3:5–15

⁵Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; ⁷so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth—God; ⁸and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, ⁹for of God we are fellow-workmen; God’s tillage, God’s building ye are. ¹⁰According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it.

¹¹For other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; ¹²and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ¹³of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; ¹⁴if of any one the work doth remain that he built on it, a wage he shall receive; ¹⁵if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.