2. needing milk, not real meat. That was your condition. You were not able to receive what I might have told you. And that is still your state.
3. The mind of the flesh works in you still. You are not spiritual, you are the human being, the human rent by division and strife,
4. one of you saying that he is Paul's disciple, another that he is Apollos'.
5-6. That is not the divine unity, wherein Paul planted and Apollos watered, and wherein all life and growth is of God. What is Paul or Apollos? Servants of your faith, each one according to the task assigned by God.
7-9. In this great oneness each receives the fulfilment and reward of his own function, sower and tiller all belong to one unity which is God's field and harvest, or God's building. In ourselves we are nothing.
10. What if I, resembling a good and skilful architect, laid a foundation on which another is building? My function was an expression of God's own grace imparted to me, and all the building similarly is of God, its parts expressing the grace which He confers.
11. If a man misapply his own mission, and attempt to lay a foundation other than that already laid which is Christ Jesus, let him be sure he will receive the appropriate reward for such a corruption and reversal of the grace God gave him.
12. Or if, instead of building on this foundation gold and silver and costly marble and stone, he build wood, thatch, straw,
13. he shall certainly receive the appropriate reward of this faithlessness. The fire will burn up his work.
14-15. The great day of truth will dawn, and reveal his faithless evil work, and the havoc he has made of the Church. It will all be destroyed, all pass away, yet shall he himself thereby be saved.
16. For this is God's temple, God's building, the Spirit of God dwells here,