4 One of you says, “I follow Paul,” and someone else says, “I follow Apollos.” When you say things like that, you are acting like people of the world.
5 Is Apollos so important? Is Paul so important? We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.
6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it. But God is the one who made the seed grow.
7 So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God is important, because he is the one who makes things grow.
8 The one who plants and the one who waters have the same purpose. And each one will be rewarded for his own work.
9 We are workers together for God, and you are like a farm that belongs to God. And you are a house that belongs to God.
10 Like an expert builder I built the foundation of that house. I used the gift that God gave me to do this. Other people are building on that foundation. But everyone should be careful how they build.