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 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• Eph 2:20–22And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
• 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
• 1 Cor 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• Mark 16:20And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• Matt 9:37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
• Isa 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
• John 4:35–38Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
• 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• John 15:1–8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
• 1 Cor 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• Acts 4:11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
• Col 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• 3 Jn 1:8We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
• Isa 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
• Mark 4:26–29And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
• 1 Tim 3:15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Ps 118:22The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
• Matt 21:23–44And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
• 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Ps 80:8–11Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
• Zech 6:12–13And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
• Isa 61:5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
• Ps 72:16There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
• Matt 13:3–9And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
• Matt 13:18–30Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
• Heb 3:3–4For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
• Matt 16:18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
• Ps 65:9–13Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
• Matt 13:36–42Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• Amos 9:11–12In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
• Matt 20:1–14For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
• Isa 5:1–7Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
• Isa 28:24–29Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
• Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Isa 27:2–3In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
• Isa 32:20Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

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