1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

In Context

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.

10In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master; but someone else is now building on it. Let everyone take care how they build;

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Cross References

Psalms 72:16May the land have abundance of corn, to the tops of the hills may it wave. May the fruit thereof flourish like Lebanon, may men spring from the city like grass of the earth.

Psalms 118:22The stone which the builders despised is become the head-stone of the corner.

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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