1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?
6I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.
Cross References
Luke 1:2as they delivered them to us, who were from the beginning eye-witnesses of them, and ministers of the word;
Romans 10:14But how shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
1 Corinthians 3:7So that neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:1Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are different offices, but the same Lord:
2 Corinthians 3:3being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.
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 →