1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
In Context
7So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.
Cross References
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Psalms 92:13Men who are planted in the house of LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Proverbs 11:25The generous soul shall be made prosperous, and he who waters shall also be watered himself.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so lord LORD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Acts 14:27And after arriving, and after gathering the assembly together, they reported as many things as God did with them, and that he opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:4And he was discoursing in the synagogue every Sabbath, and was persuading Jews and 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 →