New Living Translation

1 Corinthians 3:18-23 New Living Translation (NLT)

18. Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.

19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say,“He traps the wisein the snare of their own cleverness.”

20. And again,“The lord knows the thoughts of the wise;he knows they are worthless.”

21. So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—

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

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