1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
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In Context
4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
Romans 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:2-5
The Spirit of Party Reproved. ( a. d. 57.) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Here, I. Paul blames the… Read the whole commentary →