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 that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --

How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

Even

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;