New English Translation

1 Corinthians 3:11-23 New English Translation (NET)

11. For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12. If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

13. each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

14. If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

15. If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

16. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

17. If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

18. Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

19. For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. 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 mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

22. whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

23. and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.