1 Corinthians 3:5

Paul and Apollos are merely servants through whom the Corinthians believed, each doing the work the Lord assigned. Ministers are God's instruments, not objects of allegiance.

Cross-references · 21

• 2 Cor 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 1 Pet 4:10As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• 2 Cor 3:3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
• 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• 1 Cor 4:1–2So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• John 3:27John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Rom 10:14–15How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Matt 25:15To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
• 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
• 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• 1 Cor 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
• Luke 1:2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
• 1 Cor 12:4–11Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
• Rom 12:3–6For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Col 1:25of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

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