1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
Cross References
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Daniel 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and amongst the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
Galatians 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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 →