1 Corinthians 3:5
For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
4For, while one of you saith, I am of Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
6I planted, and Apollos watered; but God produced the growth.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as they delivered them to us, who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word;
Romans 10:14How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or, how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? Or, how shall they hear, without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7Not therefore he that planted, is to be accounted of, nor he that watered, but God who produced the growth.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let us be so accounted of by you, as the servants of Messiah, and the stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts; but the Spirit is one.
2 Corinthians 3:3For ye know that ye are an epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the heart 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 →