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1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

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In Context

5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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Cross References

Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalms 92:13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Isaiah 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Acts 14:27And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

Acts 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:6-11

Mutual Agreement of Ministers. ( a. d. 57.) 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye… Read the whole commentary →

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