1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.
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6I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,
Romans 10:14But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.
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 →