1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one says, *I* am of Paul, and another, *I* of Apollos, are ye not men?
6*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,
Romans 10:14How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?
1 Corinthians 3:7So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of [the] mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God; not on stone tables, but on 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 →