1. And yet, I myself, brethren, did not speak to you as spiritually minded beings, possessing the mind of Christ, but I spoke to you as to carnal men, still entangled in the mind of the flesh, and in Christ the merest babes,
2. needing milk, not real meat. That was your condition. You were not able to receive what I might have told you. And that is still your state.
3. The mind of the flesh works in you still. You are not spiritual, you are the human being, the human rent by division and strife,
4. one of you saying that he is Paul's disciple, another that he is Apollos'.
10. What if I, resembling a good and skilful architect, laid a foundation on which another is building? My function was an expression of God's own grace imparted to me, and all the building similarly is of God, its parts expressing the grace which He confers.
11. If a man misapply his own mission, and attempt to lay a foundation other than that already laid which is Christ Jesus, let him be sure he will receive the appropriate reward for such a corruption and reversal of the grace God gave him.
12. Or if, instead of building on this foundation gold and silver and costly marble and stone, he build wood, thatch, straw,
13. he shall certainly receive the appropriate reward of this faithlessness. The fire will burn up his work.