Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Corinthians .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
1 Corinthians 3 : 4 - 23
Chapter 3
| 4 | For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal?
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| 5 | Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
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| 6 | I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
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| 7 | So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
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| 8 | Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
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| 9 | For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building.
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| 10 | According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
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| 11 | For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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| 12 | Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
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| 13 | each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.
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| 14 | If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
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| 15 | If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
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| 16 | Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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| 17 | If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
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| 18 | Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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| 19 | For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness";
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| 20 | and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
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| 21 | Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:
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| 22 | whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come--all are yours.
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| 23 | And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
