1. Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as people still influenced by your corrupt nature. You were infants in your faith in Christ.
2. I gave you milk to drink. I didn’t give you solid food because you weren’t ready for it. Even now you aren’t ready for it
3. because you’re still influenced by your corrupt nature.When you are jealous and quarrel among yourselves, aren’t you influenced by your corrupt nature and living by human standards?
4. When some of you say, “I follow Paul” and others say, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting like ⌊sinful⌋ humans?
5. Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are servants who helped you come to faith. Each did what the Lord gave him to do.
6. I planted, and Apollos watered, but God made it grow.
7. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is important because ⌊only⌋ God makes it grow.
8. The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own work.
9. We are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field.You are God’s building.
10. As a skilled and experienced builder, I used the gift that God gave me to lay the foundation ⌊for that building⌋. However, someone else is building on it. Each person must be careful how he builds on it.
11. After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that foundation is Jesus Christ.