1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
6I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,
Romans 10:14But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in One whose voice they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.
1 Corinthians 4:1As for us Apostles, let any one take this view of us--we are Christ's officers, and stewards of God's secret truths.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are various kinds of gifts, but there is one and the same Spirit;
2 Corinthians 3:3For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and 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 →