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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

8The one planting and the one watering have the same goal, and both will be rewarded according to what they've done.

10Through the grace of God that he gave to me, I laid down the foundation like a skilled building supervisor. Now someone else is building on it. Whoever does the building needs to watch what they're doing.

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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 →

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