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 then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

who also made us sufficient as servants of a New Covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Even

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.