1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

In Context

8And he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

10According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let every one see to it how he buildeth thereon.

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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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