Sunday Scripture

1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15

14But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually. 15The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16For

who has known the Lord’s mind,

that he may instruct Him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

The Problem of Immaturity

1Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. 2I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, 3because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers? 4For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,” are you not unspiritual people?

The Role of God’s Servants

5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it. 11For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ. 12If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.