like a competent master-builder--have laid a foundation,
and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful
how and what he builds.
003:011 For no one can lay any other foundation in addition to that
which is already laid, namely Jesus Christ.
003:012 And whether the building which any one is erecting on that
foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber
or hay or straw--
003:013 the true character of each individual's work will become manifest.
For the day of Christ will disclose it, because that day is
soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality
of every one's work--the fire is the thing which will test it.
003:014 If any one's work--the building which he has erected--
stands the test, he will be rewarded.
003:015 If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it;
yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were,
by passing through the fire.
003:016 Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit
of God has His home within you?
003:017 If any one is marring the Sanctuary of God, him will God mar;
for the Sanctuary of God is holy, which you all are.
003:018 Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise,
compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age,
let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.
003:019 This world's wisdom is "foolishness" in God's sight; for it
is written, "He snares the wise with their own cunning."
003:020 And again, "The Lord takes knowledge of the reasonings of the wise--
how useless they are."
003:021 Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.
003:022 For everything belongs to you--be it Paul or Apollos or Peter,