1 Corinthians 3:10-12 Using the unearned favor shown to me by God Note: Paul here probably refers to his apostleship and its attending spiritual gifts, as an expert building contractor, I laid the foundation i.e., in starting the Corinthian church, and someone else is building on it i.e., Apollos. See verse.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ Using the unearned favor shown to me by God [Note: Paul here probably refers to his apostleship and its attending spiritual gifts], as an expert building contractor, I laid the foundation [i.e., in starting the Corinthian church], and someone else is building on it [i.e., Apollos. See verse 6]. ¹¹ For no one can lay [any] other foundation than the one which [God] has [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² But if anyone [i.e., a preacher or soul winner] builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive building stones, wood, grass, or straw,