1 Corinthians 3:9
We are workers together with God—and you are God's field, his building.
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In The King James Version
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 72:16May there be plenty of grain in the land, even growing on mountain-tops. May the fruit on the trees sway like the trees of Lebanon. May the people in the city flourish like grass in a field.
Psalms 118:22The stone rejected by the builders has turned out to be the chief cornerstone.
Isaiah 27:2At that time, sing about a beautiful vineyard.
Isaiah 28:28Grain used for bread is easily damaged so you don't thresh it forever. When you drive your cart wheels over it with your horses, you don't crush it.
Isaiah 61:3The Lord will give to everyone who mourns in Zion a crown instead of ashes on their head, the oil of happiness instead of mourning, clothes of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of integrity, planted by the Lord to reveal his glory.
Isaiah 61:11Just as the earth sends up shoots, and plants grow in a garden, so the Lord makes goodness and praise grow before all nations.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:6-11
Mutual Agreement of Ministers. ( a. d. 57.) 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye… Read the whole commentary →