1 Corinthians 3:6

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Summary

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

I

Apollos

Proverbs 11:25

Acts 18:24

Acts 19:1

God

Bible References

I

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s

field, God’s building.

I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

Apollos

The

generous man will be prosperous,

And he who waters will himself be watered.

Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.

God

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Planted in the house of the Lord,

They will flourish in the courts of our God.

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord

builds the house,

They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord

guards the city,

The watchman keeps awake in vain.

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations.

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”

When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.