Verse 6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

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  • Acts 18:26-27 : 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. 27 When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed.
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 Every Sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed him and spoke abusively, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, 'Your blood is on your own heads. I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.' 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, believed in the Lord together with his entire household. Many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized. 9 One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but keep on speaking and do not be silent.' 10 'For I am with you, and no one will attack or harm you, because I have many people in this city.' 11 So Paul stayed there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace God has given me, like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each one should be careful how they build.
  • Prov 11:25 : 25 A generous soul will prosper, and whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
  • 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
  • 2 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 We are not overextending ourselves, as though we had not reached you. For we were the first to come to you with the gospel of Christ. 15 Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand,
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 Because our gospel came to you not only in words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. As you know, we lived among you for your sake.
  • 1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 Who serves as a soldier at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock? 8 Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses: "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen that God is concerned about? 10 Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
  • 1 Cor 15:1-9 : 1 Now I make known to you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, which you also received and in which you stand. 2 Through this gospel you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Whether then it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
  • 2 Cor 3:2-5 : 2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 It is clear that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, providing seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up in the sight of all the nations.
  • Acts 11:18 : 18 When they heard this, they became silent and glorified God, saying, 'So then, God has granted repentance leading to life even to the Gentiles.'
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 16:14 : 14 One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
  • Ps 62:11 : 11 Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
  • Ps 92:13-15 : 13 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. 14 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. 15 They will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children. 15 For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
  • Acts 18:24 : 24 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well-versed in the Scriptures.
  • Acts 19:1 : 1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 After greeting them, Paul gave a detailed account of everything God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done.