1 Corinthians 3:5

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1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Ministers

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1 Peter 4:10

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Ministers

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

Think of us as servants of the Messiah and as servant managers entrusted with God's secrets.

just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

For we do not preach ourselves, but rather Jesus the Messiah as Lord, and ourselves as merely your servants for Jesus' sake.

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

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As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

For if I preach voluntarily, I get a reward, but if I am unwilling to do it, I am still entrusted with that obligation.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

To one man he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, based on their ability. Then he went on his trip.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.

As good servant managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.