Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Holman Bible
I planted,
International Standard Version
I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.
A Conservative Version
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.
American Standard Version
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Amplified
I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.
An Understandable Version
I [Paul] planted [i.e., preached God's word], Apollos watered [it], but God made it grow.
Anderson New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.
Bible in Basic English
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
Common New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.
Darby Translation
I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
Godbey New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Goodspeed New Testament
I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.
John Wesley New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Julia Smith Translation
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased.
King James 2000
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.
Modern King James verseion
I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
Moffatt New Testament
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow.
Montgomery New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.
NET Bible
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.
New Heart English Bible
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
Noyes New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.
Sawyer New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow;
The Emphasized Bible
I, planted, Apollos, watered, - but, God, caused to, grow.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.
Webster
I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the increase.
Weymouth New Testament
I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
Williams New Testament
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing.
World English Bible
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
Worrell New Testament
I planted, Apollos watered; but God causeth it to grow.
Worsley New Testament
I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.
Youngs Literal Translation
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
Apollos » An eloquent, Christian convert at corinth
Bearing fruit » God giving the increase
Increase » God giving the increase
Labor » Who shall eat the fruits of their labor
Interlinear
Potizo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
5 What is Paul? What thing is Apollos? Only ministers are they, by whom ye believed: even as the Lord gave every man grace. 6 I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase. 7 So then, neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth: but God which gave the increase.
Phrases
Cross References
Acts 18:4-11
And he preached in the synagogue every Sabbath day; And exhorted the Jews and the gentiles.
Acts 18:26-27
And the same began to speak boldly in the Synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila had heard him: they took him unto them; And expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
Acts 18:24
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria came to Ephesus: an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And unto him pertain ye, in Christ Jesus, which of God is made unto us wisdom, and also righteousness, and sanctifying, and redemption.
2 Corinthians 10:14-15
For we stretch not out ourselves beyond measure as though we had not reached unto you. For even unto you have we come with the gospel of Christ,
Psalm 62:9
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Psalm 62:11
God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,
Psalm 92:13-15
Such as be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.
Psalm 127:1
{A song of the stairs} Except the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Proverbs 11:25
He that is liberal in giving, shall have plenty; and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 55:10-11
And like as the rain and snow cometh down from heaven, and returneth not thither again, but watereth the earth, maketh it fruitful and green, that it may give corn and bread unto the sower:
Isaiah 61:11
For like as the ground bringeth forth fruit, and as the garden shooteth forth seed; So shall the LORD God cause righteousness and the fear of God to flourish forth before all the Heathen.
Acts 11:18
When they heard this, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."
Acts 14:27
When they were come and had gathered the congregation together, they rehearsed all that God had done by them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, gave us audience: whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which Paul spake.
Acts 19:1
It fortuned, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul passed through the upper coasts, and came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples
Acts 21:19
And when he had saluted them, he told, by order, all things that God had wrought among the gentiles by his ministration.
Romans 15:18
For I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient, with word and deed,
1 Corinthians 3:9-10
We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I write not these things to shame you: but as my beloved sons, I warn you.
1 Corinthians 9:7-11
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own cost? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit? Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Brethren as pertaining to the gospel which I preached unto you, which ye have also accepted, and in the which ye continue;
2 Corinthians 3:2-5
Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men;
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and also in the holy ghost and in much certainty, as ye know after what manner we behaved ourselves among you, for your sakes.