1 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. ¹ 

1 Corinthians 3:15

3:15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. ²  He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

1 Corinthians 4:15

4:15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

1 Corinthians 10:1

Learning from Israel’s Failures

10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, ³  brothers and sisters, ⁴  that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

1 Corinthians 12:8

12:8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

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¹ tn Grk “and to each as the Lord gave.”

² tn The translation “[will] be punished” is given here by BDAG 428 s.v. ζημιόω 2. But the next clause says “he will be delivered” and so “suffering loss” is more likely to refer to the destruction of the “work” by fire or the loss of the reward that could have been gained.

³ tn Grk “ignorant.”

⁴ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.