1 Corinthians 3:5

Divisiveness And Immaturity

⁴ For when one says, "I belong to Paul's party," and another, "I belong to Apollos' party," are you not acting as mere human creatures? ⁵ 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. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing.

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2 Corinthians 6:4

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties;

1 Corinthians 3:10

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;

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Matthew 25:15

He gave one five thousand dollars, another two thousand, another one thousand, to each in accordance with his ability. Then he started on his long journey.

Luke 1:2

just as the original eyewitnesses who became ministers of the message

John 3:27

John answered, "A man cannot get anything, unless it is given to him from heaven.

Romans 10:14-15

But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?

Romans 12:3-6

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for much, but God is everything in keeping the plants growing.

1 Corinthians 4:1-2

As for us apostles, men ought to think of us as ministers of Christ and trustees to handle God's uncovered truths.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do it of my own accord, I get my pay; but if I am unwilling to do it, I still am entrusted with trusteeship.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11

There are varieties of gifts, but the Spirit is the same in all;

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

2 Corinthians 3:3

for you are always showing that you are a letter of Christ, produced by my service, written not in ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But I am keeping this jewel in an earthen jar, to prove that its surpassing power is God's, not mine.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

Ephesians 3:7

for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--

Colossians 1:25

In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

1 Peter 4:10

As all of you have received your spiritual talents, you must keep on using them in serving one another, as good trustees of God's many-sided favor.