Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.



Cross References

Ephesians 2:20-22

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

Isaiah 61:3

to present a garland, instead of ashes, to those who mourn in Zion, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. They will be called oaks of righteousness. They are the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).

Mark 16:20

They went out and preached everywhere. The Lord worked with them and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

Colossians 2:7

Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving.

1 Peter 2:5

You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 65:9-13

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. You greatly enrich it! The stream of God is full of water. You prepare their grain and thus you prepare the earth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Psalm 80:8-11

You brought a vine from Egypt. You forced out the nations and planted it.

Psalm 118:22

The stone that the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.

Isaiah 5:1-7

Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

Isaiah 27:2-3

In that day sing about a fruitful vineyard:

Isaiah 28:24-29

Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are those who plant beside every stream and those who let cattle and donkeys roam freely.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks. Foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you like a choice grapevine from the very best seed. Now you have turned against me and have become a wild vine.

Amos 9:11-12

In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David and close up the breaches. I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old.

Zechariah 6:12-13

Say to him: 'Jehovah of Hosts says, See here, the man whose name is the Branch (Sprout) (Shoot) (Bud). For he will branch out (sprout) from where he is and he will build the Temple of Jehovah.

Matthew 9:37

Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.

Matthew 13:3-9

He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow.

Matthew 13:18-30

Listen to the illustration of the sower.

Matthew 13:36-42

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples gathered near him. They said: Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field.

Matthew 16:18

You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.

Matthew 20:1-14

The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Matthew 21:23-44

When he went into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching. They asked: By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?

Mark 4:26-29

He added: The kingdom of God is like this. A man plants seed in the earth.

John 4:35-38

Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest.

John 15:1-8

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

Acts 4:11

This is the stone that was rejected by you builders. It became the chief corner stone.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? We are the temple of the living God. God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Leviticus 26:12) (Zechariah 8:8)

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

1 Timothy 3:15

though if I am delayed, so that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the household of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Hebrews 3:3-4

He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. This is because the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

Hebrews 3:6

Christ was faithful as a Son over God's house. We are His house if we hold on to our courage (confidence) and rejoice (speak boldly) about our hope until the end.

3 John 1:8

We ought to receive and welcome such ones, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

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