1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
Romans 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 4:1So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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 →