1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as they, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, delivered them to us;
Romans 10:14How then shall they call on him on whom they believed not? And how shall they believe on him of whom they heard not? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1SO let a man account us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3being made manifest that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in 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 →