1 Corinthians 3:7

So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. God who gives the increase is all in all.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

In Context

6I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

8Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:2If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.

Galatians 6:3For if there is any one who thinks himself to be somebody when he is nobody, he is deluding himself.

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 →

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