Working Together for God
1 My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned. 2 So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot, 3 because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves you are not spiritual and you are acting like the people of this world.
4 Some of you say you follow me, and others claim to follow Apollos. Isn't this how ordinary people behave? 5 Apollos and I are merely servants who helped you to have faith. It was the Lord who made it all happen. 6 I planted the seeds, Apollos watered them, but God made them sprout and grow. 7 What matters isn't those who planted or watered, but God who made the plants grow. 8 The one who plants is just as important as the one who waters. And each one will be paid for what they do. 9 Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.
Only One Foundation
10 God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build, 11 because Christ is the only foundation. 12-13 Whatever we build on this foundation will be tested by fire on the day of judgment. Then everyone will find out if we have used gold, silver, and precious stones, or wood, hay, and straw. 14 We will be rewarded if our building is left standing. 15 But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames.
16 All of you surely know you are God's temple and his Spirit lives in you. 17 Together you are God's holy temple, and God will destroy anyone who destroys his temple.
18 Don't fool yourselves! If any of you think you are wise in the things of this world, you will have to become foolish before you can be truly wise. 19 This is because God considers the wisdom of this world to be foolish. It is just as the Scriptures say, “God catches the wise when they try to outsmart him.” 20 The Scriptures also say, “The Lord knows that the plans made by wise people are useless.” 21-22 So stop bragging about what anyone has done. Paul and Apollos and Peter all belong to you. In fact, everything is yours, including the world, life, death, the present, and the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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1 Un jums, brōli, es navarēju runōt kai goreigajim, bet gon kai mīseigajim, vēļ kai bārnim ikš Kristus. 2 Es jyusus barōju ar pīnu, bet na ar cītu bareibu, jo jyus tōs veļ navarējot izturēt. Pat tagad jyus tō veļ navarat, 3 jo jyus vēļ mīseigi asot nūskaņōti. Koleidz jyusūs volda naids un škeļšonōs, vai tad jyus naasot mīseigi nūskaņōti un vai nadorat pēc cylvāku īroduma? 4 Jo vins soka: Es pīkreitu Pōvulam, cyts otkon: Es Apollonam, vai tad jyus te naasot teiri mīseigi?
Streidi ir preteigi vīneigajam Kungam.
5 Kas tad ir Apollo? Kas Pōvuls? — Tikai kolpi, kas jums paleidzēja ticeibā tai, kai kuram kotram Dīvs ir īdevis. 6 Es dēsteju, Apollo aplaisteja, bet Dīvs deve augšonu. 7 Tōpēc ni dēsteitōjs ni laisteitōjs ir kaut kas, bet gon Dīvs, kas dūd augšonu. 8 Dēsteitōjs ar laisteitōju ir leidzvērteigi, bet kotrs pēc sova dorba sajam atolgōjumu. 9 Mes asom Dīva leidzstrōdnīki, jyus asot Dīva dryva, Dīva ceļtne.
10 Kai apkēreigs namdaris ar žēlesteibas paleidzeibu, kuru Dīvs man deve, es īlyku pamatu, bet cyts uz tō tūrpynoj noma ceļšonu. 11 Tūmār, lai ikvīns uzmonōs, kai ceļšona jōtūrpynoj. Nivins navar likt kaida cyta pamata, kai tū, kas ir īlykts: Jezu Kristu. 12 Bet nu kō kurs uz šytō pamata tōļōk ceļ: nu zalta, sudobra, dōrgakminim, vai arī nu kūka, sīna vai solmim, 13 tys pasarōdeis ikvīnā dorbā. (Kunga) dīna tū atklōs. Jei pasarōdeis gunī. Un guņs pōrbaudeis tū, kas kura kotra dorbā ir. 14 Jo kura dorbs izturēs, tys sajims atolgōjumu; 15 jo kura dorbs sadegs, tam byus zaudējums, un lai gon pats byus izglōbts, tūmār tai kai caur guni.
16 Vai tad jyus nazynat, ka jyus asot Dīva svētneica un ka jyusūs mōjoj Dīva Gors? 17 Bet jo kurs iznycynōtu Dīva svētneicu, tad tū pati iznycynōs Dīvs, jo Dīva svētneica ir svāta un tei asot jyus.
18 Nivins pats sevis lai namōnej. Jo kas nu jums dūmōtu, ka šys šamā pasaulī asūt gudrs, tad tam, lai topt gudram, jōpalīk par muļki, 19 jo šō pasauļa gudreiba Dīva prīškā ir muļkeiba. Ir arī raksteits: Jys saker gudrinīkus jūs pošu gudreibā, 20 un tōļōk: Kungs zyna, ka gudrinīku dūmas ir nīceigas. 21 Tōpēc nivins nu cylvākim lai nasalīlej. Jums pīdar vyss: 22 Pōvuls, Apollo un Kefas (Pīters), pasauļs, dzeive un nōve, tagadne un nōkūtne: 23 vyss šytys pīdar jums, bet jyus pīdarat Kristum un Kristus — Dīvam.
