1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
In Context
7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Cross References
Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalms 92:13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
Proverbs 11:25A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:4Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
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 →