1 Corinthians 3:9-17

We are all in this together. 

In God’s love there are no mountains that we cannot climb. We are united by the blood of the Lamb and empowered through the Holy Spirit. We were created by God for good deeds.

The church community displays the Holy Spirit’s power to give life and bring growth. Paul emphasizes that the entire Church community is God’s temple (His dwelling place on earth), not just select individuals. Faithlife Bible.

Paul had established the church at Corinth on the foundation of Christ. Any person who disrupts and destroys the church by divisions, malice, and other harmful acts invites God’s discipline. Everything God has done in the church, and in the entire universe, benefits all believers. There is no place for foolish boasting or competition among Christians. NKJ Bible.

1 Corinthians 3:9–17 (NKJV)

⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ¹³ each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Romans 8:9 (NKJV)

⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Ephesians 2:20 (NKJV)

²⁰ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Ephesians 2:21 (NKJV)

²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,