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1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

In Context

6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

8He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

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Cross References

Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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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