MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 And brethren, I was not able to speak to you* as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly ones, as to infants in Christ.
3:2 I gave you* milk to drink and not food, for* you* were not able to eat it. Neither are you* able even now,
3:3 for* you* are still fleshly. For* where there is jealousy and strife and dissensions among you*, are you* not fleshly and are you* not walking according to the manner of man?

3:4 For* whenever one says, I am indeed of Paul, but another, I am of Apollos, are you* not fleshly?
3:5 Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But servants through whom you* believed, and each as the Lord gave to him.
3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
3:7 So-then neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but God who is causing the growth.
3:8 Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
3:9 For* we are God's fellow workers. You* are God's cultivation, God's building.

3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise expert-builder I have laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But let each one beware how he is building on it.
3:11 For* no one is able to lay another foundation beside what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12 But if anyone is building on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,
3:13 each one's work will become apparent. For* the day will indicate it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is.
3:14 If anyone's work remains which he built upon it, he will receive a reward.
3:15 If the work of anyone will be burned, he will forfeit that work, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

3:16 Do you* not know that you* are a temple of God and the Spirit of God is dwelling in you*?
3:17 If anyone corrupts the temple of God, God will have corruption for him; for* the temple of God is holy and such are you*.

3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise in this world among you*, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise.
3:19 For* the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For* it has been written, ‘ It is he who is grabbing the wise in their craftiness;' {Job 5:13}
3:20 and again, ‘The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are futile.' {Ps. 94:11}
3:21 So-then let no one boast in men. For* all things are yours*,
3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things that are present or things future. All things are yours*,
3:23 and you* are Christ's, and Christ is God's.