Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.
New American Standard Bible
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul?
King James Version
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Holman Bible
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.
International Standard Version
Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.
A Conservative Version
Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.
American Standard Version
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
Amplified
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Just servants through whom you believed [in Christ], even as the Lord appointed to each his task.
An Understandable Version
After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? They are [only] servants through whom you believed [in Christ], with each one doing what the Lord gave him to do.
Anderson New Testament
Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.
Bible in Basic English
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.
Common New Testament
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord assigned to each one.
Daniel Mace New Testament
who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?
Darby Translation
Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.
Godbey New Testament
Then what is Apollos? and what is Paul? But ministers through whom ye believed; even as the Lord gave to each one.
Goodspeed New Testament
What is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Just servants through whom you came to have faith, as the Lord gave each of us opportunity.
John Wesley New Testament
and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Julia Smith Translation
Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?
King James 2000
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.
Modern King James verseion
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What is Paul? What thing is Apollos? Only ministers are they, by whom ye believed: even as the Lord gave every man grace.
Moffatt New Testament
Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.
NET Bible
What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.
New Heart English Bible
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
Noyes New Testament
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?
Sawyer New Testament
Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.
The Emphasized Bible
What then is Apollos? and, what is Paul? ministers through whom ye believed, and, each, as the Lord, gave to him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each [of us]?
Twentieth Century New Testament
What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.
Webster
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Weymouth New Testament
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.
Williams New Testament
Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.
World English Bible
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
Worrell New Testament
What, then, is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and as the Lord gave to each.
Worsley New Testament
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
Themes
Apollos » An eloquent, Christian convert at corinth
Bearing fruit » God giving the increase
Deacon » Also translated "minister,"
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
4 When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings? 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.
2 Corinthians 3:6
It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.
Matthew 25:15
"To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one??o each according to his individual ability??nd then set out on his travels.
Luke 1:2
just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,
John 3:27
In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.
Romans 10:14-15
How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Romans 12:3-6
For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."
2 Corinthians 3:3
Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
2 Corinthians 4:5
It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.
2 Corinthians 6:1
As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.
Ephesians 3:7
It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.
Colossians 1:25
It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;
1 Peter 4:10
Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.