1 Corinthians 3:5
What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4When one says ‘I follow Paul,’ and another ‘I follow Apollos,’ are not you like other men?
6I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
Cross References
Luke 1:2just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the Message.
Romans 10:14But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him?
1 Corinthians 3:7Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let men look upon us as Christ’s servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same;
2 Corinthians 3:3All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on ‘tablets of stone,’ but on ‘tablets of human hearts.’
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 →