God’s Fellow Workers
(Hebrews 5:11–14)
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. Heb 5:131Co 2:14-15Eph 4:13-141Co 14:201Co 2:6Rom 7:141Co 3:3-41Jn 2:12 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready, Heb 5:11-141Pe 2:2Jhn 16:12 for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? Jas 3:16Gal 5:15Tit 3:32Co 12:20Eph 4:22-24Jas 4:1-21Co 1:111Co 11:18 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? 1Co 1:121Co 3:31Co 4:6
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 2Co 6:42Co 6:11Pe 4:102Co 3:61Co 3:102Co 11:232Co 3:32Co 4:5 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 1Co 3:9-10Pro 11:252Co 10:14-151Co 9:1Act 18:4-111Co 1:30Act 19:1Isa 55:10-11 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. Jhn 15:5Gal 6:32Co 12:9Psa 115:11Co 13:2Dan 4:35Isa 40:17Isa 41:29 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, 1 and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. Rom 2:62Jn 1:8Jhn 4:36-38Mat 16:27Psa 62:121Co 15:58Gal 6:7-8Rev 22:12 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 1Pe 2:5Eph 2:20-222Co 6:11Co 3:16Mrk 16:20Eph 2:10Isa 61:11Mat 9:37
Christ Our Foundation
(Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds. 1Co 3:11Eph 2:20Rom 15:20Dan 12:3Mat 24:451Co 3:5-61Co 9:21Pe 4:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. Eph 2:20Isa 28:162Ti 2:19Act 4:11-121Pe 2:6-8Mat 16:18Gal 1:7-92Co 11:2-4
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 2Ti 4:32Ti 3:72Ti 2:20Col 2:18-231Pe 1:72Co 2:17Heb 13:9Mat 15:6-9 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work. 1Pe 1:71Co 3:14-15Rev 20:121Co 4:5Zec 13:91Pe 4:122Pe 3:10Rom 2:16 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 1Co 3:8Mat 25:21-231Co 4:5Mat 24:45-471Pe 5:11Pe 5:41Th 2:19Dan 12:3 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 2Jn 1:81Co 3:12-13Jud 1:23Rev 3:181Pe 4:18Zec 3:2Amo 4:11Psa 66:12
God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20)
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in 2you? 1Co 6:19Ezk 36:272Co 6:16Rom 8:11Eph 2:21-22Rom 8:9Jhn 14:171Pe 2:5 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. 1Co 6:18-20Ezk 43:12Ezk 7:22Num 19:20Ezk 23:38-39Ezk 5:11Lev 20:3Psa 79:1
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. Pro 3:51Co 1:18-21Gal 6:3Isa 5:211Co 8:1-2Luk 18:17Jas 1:22Mat 18:4 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 3 Job 5:13Psa 141:101Co 1:19-20Rom 1:21-22Isa 44:251Co 2:6Psa 9:15-16Psa 7:14-15 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 4 Psa 94:11Col 2:8Rom 1:21Job 11:11-12Psa 2:1
Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, Rom 8:32Rom 8:28Jer 9:23-241Co 4:6Rev 21:71Co 1:12-171Co 3:4-7Rom 4:13 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas 5or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, Eph 4:11-12Php 1:211Co 3:5-81Co 9:19-222Co 4:5Rom 8:37-391Co 1:12 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. Gal 3:291Co 11:31Co 15:23Jhn 17:18Jhn 17:9-102Co 10:7Jhn 17:21Rom 14:8