1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
In Context
7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
Cross References
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath,and men of high degree are a lie.In the balances they will go up.They are together lighter than a breath.
Psalms 92:13They are planted in the Lord's house.They will flourish in our God's courts.
Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat.He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the church together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Acts 18:4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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 →