because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy(A) and strife[a](B) among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?[b] For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,”(C) are you not unspiritual people?[c][d]

The Role of God’s Servants

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:3 Other mss add and divisions
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit and walking according to man
  3. 1 Corinthians 3:4 Other mss read are you not carnal
  4. 1 Corinthians 3:4 Lit not [just] human

You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling(A) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”(B) are you not mere human beings?

What, after all, is Apollos?(C) And what is Paul? Only servants,(D) through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.

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