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OET-RV by cross-referenced section 1COR 3:1

1COR 3:1–3:23 ©

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Build solidly with godly wisdom

1Cor 3:1–23

3:1 Build solidly with godly wisdom

3So brothers and sisters, because you were baby Christians when I visited, I wasn’t able to speak to you all like spiritual people, but only like worldly people. 2I gave you all milk to drink, because you weren’t ready for solid food, in fact, you still aren’t[ref] 3because you’re still worldly, because seeing the jealousy and dissension among you tells us that you’re all still worldly and just living by human values. 4Yes, when one person says, ‘I follow Paul,’ and another person says, ‘I follow Apollos’, doesn’t that show that you’re just worldly?[ref]

5Indeed, who’s Apollos? Who’s Paul? We’re just servants who brought you all the message when you believed, each one as the master led them.[fn] 6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.[ref] 7That means that neither the planter or the waterer counts for anything, only the grower, God. 8The planter and the waterer work together, and each of them will be rewarded for their work, 9because we are God’s co-workers.

You all are God’s field, or in a different image, his building. 10Using the gifts that God has given me as a wise master-builder, I laid down a foundation and then someone else is building on it. But they need to take care about how they build on it 11because no one can lay a different foundation than the one already laid down, and that foundation is Yeshua Messiah. 12Now if anyone builds on top of the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13then their work will become obvious because it will be revealed on the day of judgement because it will be shown up by fire. The fire will expose what sort of building their work created: 14if anyone’s work that they built survives the fire, those people will be rewarded, 15but if their work is incinerated, those people will lose out, although they themselves will be saved but as if they’ve been through the flames.

16Don’t you realise that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s spirit lives inside you all?[ref] 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, then God will destroy that person because his temple is sacred, as are all of you.

18Don’t let any of you fool yourselves. If anyone of you thinks they’re wise by worldly standards, then let those people become ‘foolish’ so that they really can become wise 19because this world’s wisdom is foolishness with God, because as it’s written: ‘He catches out the wise in their craftiness.’[ref] 20And further: ‘The master knows that the thoughts of wise people are useless.’[ref] 21So then, don’t let anyone boast about people, because everything already belongs to all of you. 22Don’t boast about Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, 23and you belong to Messiah, and Messiah belongs to God.


3:5 (NEEDS MORE RESEARCH BUT) It seems unclear here who the final part of the verse is referring to: a/ those who brought the message, or b/ those who received it. (We’ve chosen b/ in the OET-RV rendering.)


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Heb 5:12-13:

12Yes, because you all ought to be teachers by now, yet you still need to have someone teaching you the basics of God’s ways and you’ve become like those who need milk instead of solid food.[ref] 13Everyone who drinks milk doesn’t really understand the message about righteousness, because they’re still infants,


5:12-13: 1Cor 3:2.

1Cor 1:12:

12What I am talking about is how many of you are claiming that you belong to Paul’s group, for example, or that you belong to Apollos’ group, or that you belong to Cephas’ group, or that you belong to Messiah’s group.[ref]


1:12: Acts 18:24.

Acts 18:4-11:

4On every Rest Day, Paul debated in the Jewish meeting hall, and was persuading both Jews and Greeks.

5However when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was able to devote his full time to the message—demonstrating to the Jews that Yeshua is the promised messiah. 6But when they opposed the message and made false accusations, he publicly brushed the dust off his clothes[fn] and said, “Your future deaths are your own problem. I’m innocent of your guilt. From now on, I’ll going to the non-Jews.” 7So Paul left there, and went to stay at the house of a man named Titos Justus who worshipped God and whose house was next-door to the meeting hall. 8Krispo the meeting hall leader and all his household decided to follow the master, and many of the Corinthians believed after they heard the message and were immersed.

9Then the master spoke to Paul one night in a vision, “Don’t be afraid and stay silent, but keep speaking out 10because I am with you and no one can mistreat you here because there are many of my people in this city.” 11So Paul stayed on for eighteen months, teaching God’s message to the people there.


18:6 In the culture, this was a demonstration that you’re not responsible for their decision(s).

Acts 18:24-28:

18:24 Apollos teaches in Ephesus and Corinth

24Meanwhile a Jewish man named Apollos (who had been born in the city of Alexandria) arrived in Ephesus. He knew the Hebrew scriptures well 25and had been taught about the master’s way. Being a very enthusiastic person, he started teaching about Yeshua, even though he didn’t know about being filled with the spirit.[ref] 26So Apollos started speaking out boldly in the Jewish meeting hall. Priscilla and Aquila listened to him, then asked to speak with him privately and explained God’s way more accurately. 27Now Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, so the believers encouraged him and sent a letter ahead of him to tell the believers there to welcome him, so when he arrived there, he was able to contribute a lot to those who through God’s grace had also become believers. 28Apollos was also able to thoroughly refute the arguments of the Jews and used the scriptures to show that Yeshua is the messiah.


18:25: 2:1-4.

1Cor 6:19:

19Surely you all know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit who comes from God and lives within you.[ref] No, you don’t actually own yourselves


6:19: 1Cor 3:16; 2Cor 6:16.

2Cor 6:16:

16[ref]What agreement can God’s temple have with idols, because we are the temple of the living God? As God said,

‘I will live with them

and I will walk among them.

I will be their God

and they will be my people.’


6:16: a 1Cor 3:16; 6:19; b Lev 26:12; Eze 37:27.

Yob 5:13:

13He catches smart people in their craftiness,

and he hurries along the plans of those who’re deceptive.

Psa 94:11:

11[ref]


94:11: 1Cor 3:20.