Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.
New American Standard Bible
For we are God’s
King James Version
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Holman Bible
For we are God’s coworkers.
International Standard Version
For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.
A Conservative Version
For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.
American Standard Version
For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Amplified
For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.
An Understandable Version
For we are all fellow-workers in God's service; you people are God's farm land; [you are] God's building.
Anderson New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
Bible in Basic English
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
Common New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
Daniel Mace New Testament
For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.
Darby Translation
For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Godbey New Testament
For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's farm; ye are God's building.
Goodspeed New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.
John Wesley New Testament
For we are fellow-labourers of God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Julia Smith Translation
For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God.
King James 2000
For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
Modern King James verseion
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Moffatt New Testament
We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.
Montgomery New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.
NET Bible
We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God's field, God's building.
New Heart English Bible
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
Noyes New Testament
For we are Gods fellowlaborers; ye are Gods field, ye are Gods building.
Sawyer New Testament
For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.
The Emphasized Bible
For we are, God's, fellow-workmen: ye are, God's, farm, God's building.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For we are God's fellowlabourers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's harvest field, God's building.
Webster
For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Weymouth New Testament
Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.
World English Bible
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
Worrell New Testament
For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Worsley New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
Bearing fruit » God giving the increase
Christ » Conqueror of death » Co-operation with
Church » Similitudes of the church compared to » 1 a building
Church » God's husbandry (farm)
Increase » God giving the increase
Labor » Who shall eat the fruits of their labor
spiritual Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
Names » Of the church » God's husbandry
Names » Of the church » God's building
Similitudes » The church compared to » Building
Interlinear
sunergos
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 3:9
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:9
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
8 The planter and the waterer are one in aim, and yet each of us will get his own pay in accordance with his own work, 9 for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built. 10 As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it;
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 2:20-22
for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Are you not conscious that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has His permanent home in you?
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.
Mark 16:20
Then they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept on working with them and confirming their message by the signs that attended it.
Colossians 2:7
with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.
1 Peter 2:5
and keep on building yourselves up, as living stones, into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, to offer up, through Jesus Christ, spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God.
Matthew 9:37
Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the reapers are scarce.
Matthew 13:3-9
And in stories, by way of comparison, He told them many things, as He continued to speak: "A sower went out to sow,
Matthew 13:18-30
"Now listen closely to the story of the sower.
Matthew 13:36-42
Then He left the crowds and went into His house. And His disciples came up to Him and said, "Explain to us the story of the wild wheat in the field."
Matthew 16:18
And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.
Matthew 20:1-14
"For the kingdom of heaven is like an owner of an estate who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:23-44
And when He had come into the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to Him while He was teaching, and asked, "What sort of authority have you for doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"
Mark 4:26-29
He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,
John 4:35-38
Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.
John 15:1-8
"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
Acts 4:11
He is the stone that was thrown away by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."
Ephesians 2:10
For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.
1 Timothy 3:15
so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Hebrews 3:3-4
For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.
3 John 1:8
So we ought to show hospitality to such men, to prove that we cooperate with them for the truth.