Why would it offend me?
1 Corinthians 3
Sectarianism Is Carnal
1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual
people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
2I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able
to receive it, and even now you are still not able;
3for you are still carnal. For where
there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like
mere men?
4For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I
am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
Watering, Working, Warning
5Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
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 one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.