14. If what a person has built survives, he will receive a reward.
15. If his work is burned up, he will suffer ⌊the loss⌋. However, he will be saved, though it will be like going through a fire.
16. Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17. If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him because God’s temple is holy. You are that holy temple!
18. Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.
19. The wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. That’s why Scripture says, “God catches the wise in their cleverness.”
20. Again Scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are pointless.”
21. So don’t brag about people. Everything belongs to you.
22. Whether it is Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life or death, present or future things, everything belongs to you.
23. You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.