Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

New American Standard Bible

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

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. You are God’s field, God’s building.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

we are
ἐσμέν 
Esmen 
Usage: 50

with God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ye are
ἐστέ 
Este 
are, be, is, belong to, have been, not tr
Usage: 53

θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

γεώργιον 
Georgion 
Usage: 1

ye are God's
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 3:9

References

Images 1 Corinthians 3:9

Prayers for 1 Corinthians 3:9

Context Readings

Divisiveness And Immaturity

8 He that planteth, and he that watereth, are neither better than the other. Every man yet shall receive his reward according to his labour. 9 We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 10 According to the grace of God given unto me, as a wise builder have I laid the foundation; and another hath built thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon.

Cross References

Ephesians 2:20-22

and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets - Jesus Christ being the head cornerstone -

Isaiah 61:3

That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Are ye not aware that ye are the temple of God, and how that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2 Corinthians 6:1

We as helpers therefore exhort you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

Mark 16:20

And they went forth, and preached everywhere. And the Lord wrought with them; And confirmed the word with miracles that followed.

Colossians 2:7

and steadfast in the faith, as ye have learned: and therein be plenteous in giving thanks.

1 Peter 2:5

and ye, as living stones, are made a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, for to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Psalm 65:9-13

Thou visitest the earth, thou waterest it, and makest it very plenteous. The river of God is full of waters; thou preparest man his corn, and thus thou providest for the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be a heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

Psalm 80:8-11

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Psalm 118:22

The same stone which the builders refused, is become the headstone in the corner.

Isaiah 5:1-7

Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.

Isaiah 27:2-3

At the same time shall men sing of the vineyard of Muscatel.

Isaiah 28:24-29

Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.

Isaiah 32:20

O how happy shall ye be, when ye shall safely sow your seed beside all waters, and drive thither the feet of your oxen and asses.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.

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.

Jeremiah 2:21

and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

Amos 9:11-12

"At that time will I build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and hedge up his gaps. And look: what is broken, I shall repair it. Yea, I shall build it again, as it was a fore time,

Zechariah 6:12-13

And speak unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Behold the man whose name is the branch: and he that shall spring up after him, shall build up the temple of the LORD.

Matthew 9:37

Then said he to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few:

Matthew 13:3-9

And he spake many things to them in similitudes, saying, "Behold, the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 13:18-30

Hear ye therefore the similitude of the sower.

Matthew 13:36-42

Then sent Jesus the people away, and came to house. And his disciples came unto him, saying, "Declare unto us the similitude of the tares in the field."

Matthew 16:18

And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter. And upon this rock, I will build my congregation: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 20:1-14

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a householder which 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 power?"

Mark 4:26-29

And he said, "So is the kingdom of God, even as if a man should sow seed in the ground,

John 4:35-38

Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?' Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the regions: For they are white already unto harvest.

John 15:1-8

I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman.

Acts 4:11

This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is set in the chief place of the corner.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Either, know ye not how that your bodies are the temple of the holy ghost, which is in you, whom he have of God, and how that ye are not your own?

2 Corinthians 6:16

How agreeth the temple of God with images? And ye are the temple of the living God, as said God, "I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and 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, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

1 Timothy 3:15

But and if I tarry long, that then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.

Hebrews 3:3-4

And this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses; Inasmuch as he which hath prepared the house, hath most honour in the house.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ, as a son, hath rule over the house, whose house we are, so that we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of that hope, unto the end.

3 John 1:8

We therefore ought to receive such, that we also might be helpers to the truth.

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