1 Corinthians 3:5
Who is Apollos, anyway? And who is Paul? We're just servants through whom you believed. Each of us does the work God gave us to do.
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6I did the planting, Apollos did the watering—but it was God who made you grow!
Cross References
Luke 1:2They based their accounts on evidence from the earliest eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word,
Romans 10:14But how can people call on someone they don't trust? How can they trust someone they haven't heard about? How can they hear unless they're told?
1 Corinthians 3:7So the one who does the planting doesn't count for anything, any more than the one who does the watering. The only one who matters is God who is growing you!
1 Corinthians 4:1So think of us as Christ's servants given the responsibility for “the mysteries of God.”
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they come from the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3You demonstrate that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us; not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not written on stone slabs but in our living experience as human beings.
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 →