1 Corinthians 3:7

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So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

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  • John 15:5 : 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if anyone thinks they are something when they are nothing, they deceive themselves.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to Your name, give glory because of Your steadfast love and faithfulness.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 Before Him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.

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  • 1 Cor 3:5-6
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    5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each.

    6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

  • 1 Cor 3:8-11
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    8The one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive their reward according to their own labor.

    9For we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According 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.

    11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

    11You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which through us produces thanksgiving to God.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36The one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6Remember this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26He also said, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man scatters seed on the ground.

    27He sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

    28The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They sowed fields and planted vineyards, which yielded a fruitful harvest.

  • Col 2:19
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    19Such a person does not hold fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that comes from God.

  • 1 Cor 12:6
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    6There are different kinds of workings, but the same God works all of them in all people.

  • 1 Cor 15:37-38
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    37And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

    38But God gives it a body as He has determined, and to each kind of seed its own body.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

    8The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who 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?

  • John 15:5
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    5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21So then, let no one boast in human leaders, for all things are yours—

  • Eph 2:9
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    9not by works, so that no one can boast.

  • 2 Cor 1:21
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    21Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,

  • Ps 1:3
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    3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

  • Job 5:10
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    10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

    7For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6Sow your seed in the morning and do not withhold your hand in the evening, for you do not know which will prosper—whether this or that, or if both will equally thrive.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10But 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.

    11Whether then it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now the one who has prepared us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Or 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.

    11If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Ps 67:6
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    6Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8It was planted in fertile soil by abundant waters to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

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    5So that your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

  • Gen 1:11
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    11Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so.

  • 1 Cor 3:14
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    14If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.

  • Gal 3:5
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    5Does God supply the Spirit to you and work miracles among you by works of the law or by hearing with faith?