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Verse of the Day
May 14, 2024 10:07 AM

  1 Corinthians 3:18-20 In-Context

  16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?

  17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

  18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become "fools" so that you may become wise.

  19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"Job 5:13 ;

  20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."Psalm 94:11

  21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,

  22 whether Paul or Apollos or CephasThat is, Peter or the world or life or death or the present or the future-all are yours,

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