1 Corinthians 3:8

Planter and waterer share one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. Ministers are united in work and individually accountable to God.

Cross-references · 19

• Rom 2:6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
• John 4:36–38He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
• Ps 62:12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
• Rev 22:12“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Gal 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
• 1 Pet 5:4When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
• Matt 10:41–42He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• 1 Cor 3:14If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
• Matt 5:11–12“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
• Dan 12:3Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• 1 Cor 4:5–6Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
• 1 Cor 9:17–18For 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.

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