1 Corinthians 3:5
The ministers of him whom you have believed; and to every one as the Lord hath given.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:
Romans 10:14How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly 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 →