Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
New American Standard Bible
For we are God’s
King James Version
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Holman Bible
For we are God’s coworkers.
International Standard Version
For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.
A Conservative Version
For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.
Amplified
For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.
An Understandable Version
For we are all fellow-workers in God's service; you people are God's farm land; [you are] God's building.
Anderson New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
Bible in Basic English
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
Common New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
Daniel Mace New Testament
For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.
Darby Translation
For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Godbey New Testament
For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's farm; ye are God's building.
Goodspeed New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.
John Wesley New Testament
For we are fellow-labourers of God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Julia Smith Translation
For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God.
King James 2000
For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
Modern King James verseion
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Moffatt New Testament
We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.
Montgomery New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.
NET Bible
We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God's field, God's building.
New Heart English Bible
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
Noyes New Testament
For we are Gods fellowlaborers; ye are Gods field, ye are Gods building.
Sawyer New Testament
For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.
The Emphasized Bible
For we are, God's, fellow-workmen: ye are, God's, farm, God's building.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For we are God's fellowlabourers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's harvest field, God's building.
Webster
For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Weymouth New Testament
Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.
Williams New Testament
for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.
World English Bible
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
Worrell New Testament
For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
Worsley New Testament
For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
Bearing fruit » God giving the increase
Christ » Conqueror of death » Co-operation with
Church » Similitudes of the church compared to » 1 a building
Church » God's husbandry (farm)
Increase » God giving the increase
Labor » Who shall eat the fruits of their labor
spiritual Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
Names » Of the church » God's husbandry
Names » Of the church » God's building
Similitudes » The church compared to » Building
Interlinear
sunergos
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 3:9
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:9
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 2:20-22
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
Isaiah 61:3
to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2 Corinthians 6:1
And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
Mark 16:20
And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
Colossians 2:7
rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 Peter 2:5
ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Psalm 65:9-13
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
Psalm 72:16
There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Psalm 80:8-11
Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner.
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isaiah 27:2-3
In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
Isaiah 28:24-29
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah 61:5
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
Amos 9:11-12
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
Zechariah 6:12-13
and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Jehovah;
Matthew 9:37
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Matthew 13:3-9
And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
Matthew 13:18-30
Hear then ye the parable of the sower.
Matthew 13:36-42
Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
Matthew 16:18
And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 20:1-14
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
Matthew 21:23-44
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Mark 4:26-29
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;
John 4:35-38
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
John 15:1-8
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Acts 4:11
He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
1 Timothy 3:15
but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Hebrews 3:3-4
For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
3 John 1:8
We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.