Parallel Verses
King James 2000
For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are 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.
American Standard Version
For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
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.
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 plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 2:20-22
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
Isaiah 61:3
To provide for them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you 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 with signs following. Amen.
Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
1 Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Psalm 65:9-13
You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them grain, when you have so provided for it.
Psalm 72:16
There shall be a handful 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 the grass of the earth.
Psalm 80:8-11
You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner.
Isaiah 5:1-7
Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:
Isaiah 27:2-3
In that day sing unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah 28:24-29
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Isaiah 61:5
And foreigners shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a wild vine unto me?
Amos 9:11-12
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will rebuild it as in the days of old:
Zechariah 6:12-13
And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Matthew 9:37
Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few;
Matthew 13:3-9
And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Matthew 13:18-30
Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.
Matthew 13:36-42
Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
Matthew 16:18
And I say also unto you, That you are 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 is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:23-44
And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you these things? and who gave you this authority?
Mark 4:26-29
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
John 4:35-38
Say not, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
John 15:1-8
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.
Acts 4:11
This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the head of the corner.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has 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 unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself 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 this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
3 John 1:8
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth.