1 Corinthians 3:5
We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.
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In Context
6I planted, Apollo watered, but God provided the growth.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as they have been handed on to those of us who from the beginning saw the same and were ministers of the word,
Romans 10:14Then in what way will those who have not believed in him call upon him? Or in what way will those who have not heard of him believe in him? And in what way will they hear of him without preaching?
1 Corinthians 3:7And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth.
1 Corinthians 4:1Accordingly, let man consider us to be ministers of Christ and attendants of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Truly, there are diverse graces, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3It has been made manifest that you are the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written down, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets 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 →