(Hebrews 5:11–14)
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And I, brothers, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as to fleshly people, as to babes in Christ.
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I fed you milk and not meat, for you were not ready for meat. And even now you are not ready.
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For you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife exist among you, are you not living according to the flesh, and are you not walking by human standards?
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For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” are you not living as human beings?
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Who then is Apollos? And who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, to each of whom the Lord gave tasks.
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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So then, neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything. But it is God who gives the growth.
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Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own wages according to his own labor.
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For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s garden, God’s building.
Christ Our Foundation
(Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
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According to the grace of God that was given to me as a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation and another is building on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one that has been laid, that is, Jesus Christ.
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Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
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his work will be revealed, for the daylight will reveal it. For it will be revealed in fire. The fire will test the quality of what each one had done.
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If anyone’s work remains, he will receive a reward;
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but if anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as though escaping through fire.
God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20)
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Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and so are you.
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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a “fool” that he may become wise.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
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And again, “The Lord knows that the reasoning of the wise is futile.”
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So no more boasting about people! For all things are yours,
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whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All things are yours,
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and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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