Quotes About Community

For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

For we are Godís fellow workers; you are Godís field, Godís building.

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

Do you not know that you yourselves are Godís temple, and that Godís Spirit dwells in you?

If anyone destroys Godís temple, God will destroy him; for Godís temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his fatherís wife.

And you are proud! Shouldnít you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.