1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, ye are God's building.
Noyes Bible
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 72:16There shall be an abundance of corn in the land; Its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, even on the tops of the mountains; And they of the cities shall flourish as the grass of the earth.
Psalms 118:22“The stone which the builders rejected Hath become the chief corner-stone.
Isaiah 27:2In that day, sing ye thus concerning the vineyard:
Isaiah 28:28Bread-corn is beaten out, Yet doth not the husbandman thrash it without limit. He driveth over it the wheels of the wain, And the horses, yet doth he not utterly crush it.
Isaiah 61:3To give gladness to the mourners in Zion; To give them a beautiful crown instead of ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, So that they shall be called blessed terebinth-trees, The plantation of Jehovah for his glory.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth putteth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its plants to spring forth, So shall the Lord Jehovah cause salvation to spring forth; And praise before all the 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 →