First Reading1 Corinthians 3:1-9
From the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual,but as to fleshly,as to babies in Christ.2I fed you with milk,not with solid food,for you weren’t yet ready.Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,3for you are still fleshly.For insofar as there is jealousy,strife, and factions among you,aren’t you fleshly,and don’t you walk in the ways of men?4For when one says,“I follow Paul,” and another,“I follow Apollos,”aren’t you fleshly?
5Who then is Apollos,and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed,and each as the Lord gave to him?6I planted. Apollos watered.But God gave the increase.7So then neither he who plants is anything,nor he who waters,but God who gives the increase.8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same,but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.9For we are God’s fellow workers.You are God’s farming, God’s building.