1 Corinthians 3:7
So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
6I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
Daniel 4:35And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
1 Corinthians 13:2And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
Galatians 6:3For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
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 →