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上帝的同工

¹弟兄們，我從前對你們說話，還不能把你們當作屬靈的，只能把你們當作屬肉體的，你們在基督裏僅是嬰孩。 ²我用奶餵你們，沒有用飯餵你們，因為那時你們不能吃。就是如今還是不能， ³因為你們仍是屬肉體的。你們中間有嫉妒、紛爭，這豈不是屬乎肉體，照着世人的樣子生活嗎？ ⁴有人說：「我是屬保羅的」；有人說：「我是屬亞波羅的」；這樣你們豈不是和世人一樣嗎？ ⁵亞波羅算甚麼？保羅算甚麼？我們都是上帝的執事，藉着我們，你們信了；這不過是照着主給各人的恩賜去做罷了。 ⁶我栽種了，亞波羅澆灌了，惟有上帝使它生長。 ⁷可見，栽種的算不了甚麼，澆灌的也算不了甚麼；惟有上帝能使它生長。 ⁸栽種的和澆灌的都是一樣，但將來各人要照自己的勞苦得到自己的報酬。 ⁹因為我們是上帝的同工，而你們是上帝的田地、上帝的房屋。
¹⁰我照上帝所給我的恩典，好像一個聰明的工頭，立好了根基，別人在上面建造；只是各人要謹慎怎樣在上面建造。 ¹¹因為，那已經立好的根基就是耶穌基督，此外沒有人能立別的根基。 ¹²若有人用金銀、寶石，草木、禾稭，在這根基上建造， ¹³各人的工程必將顯露，因為那日子要將它顯明，有火把它暴露出來，這火要試煉各人的工程怎樣。 ¹⁴人在那根基上所建造的工程若能保得住，他將要得賞賜。 ¹⁵人的工程若被燒了，他將損失，雖然他自己將得救，卻要像從火裏經過一樣。
¹⁶難道不知你們是上帝的殿，上帝的靈住在你們裏面嗎？ ¹⁷若有人毀壞上帝的殿，上帝一定要毀滅那人；因為上帝的殿是神聖的，這殿就是你們。
¹⁸誰都不可自欺。你們中間若有人自以為在今世有智慧，倒不如變為愚拙，好成為有智慧的。 ¹⁹因為這世界的智慧在上帝看來是愚拙的。如經上記着：
「主使有智慧的人中了自己的詭計；」
²⁰又說：
「主知道智慧人的意念，
因為它們是虛妄的。」
²¹所以，無論誰都不可誇耀人；因為萬有都是你們的， ²²或保羅，或亞波羅，或磯法，或世界，或生，或死，或現今的事，或將來的事，全是你們的， ²³而你們是屬基督的，基督是屬上帝的。

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Sectarianism Is Carnal

¹And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ⚓babes in Christ. ²I fed you with ⚓milk and not with solid food; ⚓for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; ³for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? ⁴For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Watering, Working, Warning

⁵Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ⚓ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? ⁶⚓I planted, ⚓Apollos watered, ⚓but God gave the increase. ⁷So then ⚓neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸Now he who plants and he who waters are one, ⚓and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
⁹For ⚓we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are⚓God’s building. ¹⁰⚓According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid ⚓the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹For no other foundation can anyone lay than ⚓that which is laid, ⚓which is Jesus Christ. ¹²Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ¹³each one’s work will become clear; for the Day ⚓will declare it, because ⚓it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ¹⁴If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
¹⁶⚓Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Avoid Worldly Wisdom

¹⁸⚓Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ⚓“He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; ²⁰and again, ⚓“The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹Therefore let no one boast in men. For ⚓all things are yours: ²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. ²³And ⚓you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.