1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
6I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2Even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the word;
Romans 10:14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart.
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 →