1 Corinthians 3:6

Paul planted, Apollos watered, but God alone made it grow. Human ministers contribute, but God gives all spiritual life and increase.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Cor 3:9–10For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
• 2 Cor 10:14–15For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
• 1 Cor 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
• Acts 18:4–11He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
• Acts 19:1While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
• 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Isa 55:10–11For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• Acts 18:26–27He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
• 2 Cor 3:2–5You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
• Acts 16:14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Ps 92:13–15They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
• 1 Cor 9:7–11What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
• Ps 127:1A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
• Acts 21:19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Ps 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
• Acts 18:24Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
• Rom 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Ps 62:11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
• Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
• Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• 1 Cor 15:1–11Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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