For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [a]men?

For when one saith, I am Paul’s, and another, I am Apollos’s, are ye not carnal?

[b]Who is Paul then? and who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, and as the Lord gave to every man?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:3 By the square and compass of man’s wit and judgment.
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:5 After that he hath sufficiently reprehended ambitious teachers, and their foolish esteemers, now he showeth how the true ministers are to be esteemed, that we attribute not unto them, more or less than we ought to do. Therefore he teacheth us, that they are they by whom we are brought to faith and salvation, but yet as the ministers of God, and such as do nothing of themselves, but God so working by them as it pleaseth him to furnish them with his gifts. Therefore we have not to mark or consider what minister it is that speaketh, but what is spoken: and we must depend only upon him which speaketh by his servants.

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