1 Corinthians 3:9

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1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

We

3 John 1:8

Ye are god's

Husbandry

Bible References

We

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

the harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few:

as for the disciples, they went and preached the gospel in all parts: the Lord co-operating with them, and confirming their doctrine by the miracles that accompany'd it.

Invested then with such a commission, I beseech you let not the offers of divine favour be made to you in vain.

it behoves us to give a kind reception to such, that we may be assistant in promoting the truth.

Ye are god's

Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.

For the kingdom of the Messiah is like a family, the master whereof went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.

When he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the magistrates came to him as he was teaching, and said, by what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:

is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

I am the genuine vine, and my father is the vintager.

Husbandry

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

and I tell thee likewise, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will hereafter build my church: and death shall not prevail against it.

this is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but is become the chief of the angle.

and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein.

you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, that is, in the church of the true God.

but as the architect is of much greater dignity than the house he has made; so the glory which Christ received was greater than that of Moses.

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.