1 Corinthians 3:5
Then what is Apollos? and what is Paul? But ministers through whom ye believed; even as the Lord gave to each one.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one may say, I am indeed of Paul; another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?
6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as those being eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered unto us;
Romans 10:14Then how can they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how can they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither is the one planting, nor the one watering anything, but God the one giving the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1So let a man consider us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4But there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3being manifest that you are the letter of Christ, having been ministered by us, having been written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in tables 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 →