I, planted, Apollos, watered, - but, God, caused to, grow.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

What soldier ever served [in the army] and paid his own expenses? Who [ever] planted a grape orchard and did not get to eat some of the grapes it produced? Or, who [ever] tended a flock of goats and did not get to drink some of the milk?

If we have planted spiritual seeds [i.e., the Gospel message] among you, is it too much to expect to reap a material harvest from you?

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.