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, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Eph 2:20–22being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
• Mark 16:20They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
• Matt 9:37Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
• 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.
• John 4:35–38Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• Acts 4:11He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• 3 Jn 1:8We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
• Isa 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
• Mark 4:26–29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
• 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Ps 118:22The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Matt 21:23–44When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
• 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
• Ps 80:8–11You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
• Zech 6:12–13and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
• Isa 61:5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
• Ps 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
• Matt 13:3–9He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
• Matt 13:18–30“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
• Heb 3:3–4For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
• Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Ps 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
• Matt 13:36–42Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• Amos 9:11–12In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
• Matt 20:1–14“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
• Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• Isa 28:24–29Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Isa 27:2–3In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
• Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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