1 Corinthians 3:9

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1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

We

3 John 1:8

Ye are god's

Husbandry

Bible References

We

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

So we ought to support such men, to show that we are ready to co-operate with the truth.

Ye are god's

And he told them many things in figures, and said to them, "A sower went out to sow,

For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

Husbandry

Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.

He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.

What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

For Jesus is entitled to as much more honor than Moses as the builder of a house is than the house he builds.

and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.