1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

In Context

5Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

7so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth — God;

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Cross References

Psalms 62:9Only — vanity [are] the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity [are] lighter.

Psalms 92:13Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.

Proverbs 11:25A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

Isaiah 61:11For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!

Acts 14:27and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

Acts 18:4and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

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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