1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
In Context
7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
Cross References
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Psalms 92:13They are planted in the LORD’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Acts 14:27When they had arrived and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Acts 18:4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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 →