Readers' Theatre: 1 Corinthians 3: 10-23

Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of 1 Corinthians 3: 10-23.  It is set for two readers.

Readers’ Theatre
1 Corinthians 3: 10-23

One:    Because of God’s grace to me,
I have laid the foundation like an expert builder.
Now others are building on it.
But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
For no one can lay any foundation
other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.

Two:    Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God
and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 
God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple.
            For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

One:    Stop deceiving yourselves.
If you think you are wise by this world’s standards,
you need to become a fool to be truly wise. 
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God.
As the Scriptures say,

Two:    He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

One:    And again,

Two:    The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise;
he knows they are worthless.

One:    So don’t boast about following a particular human leader.
For everything belongs to you—
whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world,
or life and death, or the present and the future.

Two:    Everything belongs to you, 
and you belong to Christ,
and Christ belongs to God.