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1 Corinthians 3:7

Therefore neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters, counts for anything, but only God who causes the growth.

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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, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.

8In this the person who plants and the person who waters are one; yet each will receive their own reward in proportion to their own labor.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:2Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not love, I am nothing!

Galatians 6:3If a person imagines themselves to be somebody, when they are really nobody, they deceive themselves.

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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