1.Cor3,1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly- mere infants in Christ. > Wow - after the nice word in the beginning Paul is super direct - what does he say next?
2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. > Again, he just tells them: I think the people i know would like to hear reasons. Indeed, you are still not ready. > Again. Paul really comes after them!
3 You are still worldly. > Now he sais it again! You are still worldly! For since there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not worldly?/3 denn ihr seid noch fleischlich. Denn wo Eifersucht1o. Neid; o. Rivalität und Streit unter euch ist, seid ihr da nicht fleischlich und wandelt nach Menschenweise? > This is the reason for his strong words here. Are you not acting like mere men? > Jealousy - quarrelling : this is worldly! / Am i jealouse? About whom: Maybe i feel other just have more respect and i just get used! Am i in quarrelling? No. I don't think so. Am i in competition? With whom - i decide i am a servent not some body else....
But if i don't feel respected i can not do it. Or should i just be trampled? For what about my selfe should i fight for? Nothing! I just should fight for the others. Help them to see their sin, so they can be more free!
4 For when one says, I follow Paul, and another, I follow Apollos, are you not mere men? > Do i really follow Jesus? Just him? Why is it important to me what other think about me? If i follow some one, just him, because i love him - why do i car about other who do maybe the same. Why is important what other think! ... MORE LATER - need to go to dentist now. :-(
5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe- as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labour.
9 For we are God's fellow-workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.
11 For no-one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.
14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.
15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a fool so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;
20 and again, The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.
21 So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours,
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future- all are yours,
23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
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