1 Corinthians 3:9

Ministers are God's fellow workers, and the church is God's field and building. The work belongs to God, and the people belong to God.

Cross-references · 39

• 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Eph 2:20–22built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
• Mark 16:20And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
• Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
• Matt 9:37Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
• Isa 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
• John 4:35–38Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
• 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
• John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• Acts 4:11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• 3 Jn 1:8Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
• Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• Mark 4:26–29Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
• 1 Tim 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
• Ps 118:22The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Matt 21:23–44When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
• Ps 80:8–11You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
• Zech 6:12–13And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.
• Isa 61:5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
• Ps 72:16May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
• Matt 13:3–9And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
• Matt 13:18–30Consider, then, the parable of the sower:
• Heb 3:3–4For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
• Matt 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Ps 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
• Matt 13:36–42Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
• Jer 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Amos 9:11–12“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
• Matt 20:1–14“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
• Isa 5:1–7I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
• Isa 28:24–29Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
• Heb 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
• Isa 27:2–3In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.

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