1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?
6I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye- witnesses and ministers of the word,
Romans 10:14How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
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 →