Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

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.

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 and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, 9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are. 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

Cross References

Ephesians 2:20-22

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone,

Isaiah 61:3

To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'

1 Corinthians 3:16

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

Mark 16:20

and they, having gone forth, did preach everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word, through the signs following. Amen.

Colossians 2:7

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

1 Peter 2:5

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 65:9-13

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

Psalm 72:16

There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

Psalm 80:8-11

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Psalm 118:22

A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.

Isaiah 5:1-7

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,

Isaiah 27:2-3

In that day, 'A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,

Isaiah 28:24-29

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Isaiah 32:20

Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

Isaiah 61:5

And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

Isaiah 61:11

For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!

Jeremiah 2:21

And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

Amos 9:11-12

In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.

Zechariah 6:12-13

and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot -- is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah.

Matthew 9:37

then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few;

Matthew 13:3-9

and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: 'Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

Matthew 13:18-30

'Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:

Matthew 13:36-42

Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, 'Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'

Matthew 16:18

'And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

Matthew 20:1-14

'For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

Matthew 21:23-44

And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, 'By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

Mark 4:26-29

And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

John 4:35-38

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

John 15:1-8

'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

Acts 4:11

This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner;

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

1 Corinthians 6:19

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

2 Corinthians 6:16

and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- 'I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

Ephesians 2:10

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

1 Timothy 3:15

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

Hebrews 3:3-4

for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

Hebrews 3:6

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

3 John 1:8

we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

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