1 Corinthians 3:5
Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?
6I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.
Cross References
Luke 1:2even as they were delivered to us by those who were, from the beginning, eye-witnesses and ministers of the word;
Romans 10:14How, then, shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let each one so think of us as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:2-5
The Spirit of Party Reproved. ( a. d. 57.) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Here, I. Paul blames the… Read the whole commentary →