1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
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In Context
7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
Cross References
Daniel 12:3Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 10:41He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Luke 19:19“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
Romans 2:6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
1 Corinthians 3:14If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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 →