1 Corinthians 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

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  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in all things commending ourselves as the ministers of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Who also made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.
  • 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man account of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
  • 1 Cor 12:4-9 : 4 Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are different administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are different operations, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
  • 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his own ability; and immediately went on his journey.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,
  • John 3:27 : 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it is given to him from heaven.
  • Rom 10:14-15 : 14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
  • Rom 12:3-6 : 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to each one the measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function: 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, as workers together with Him, urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain.
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
  • Eph 3:7 : 7 Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.
  • Col 1:25 : 25 Of which I was made a minister, according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;
  • 1 Pet 4:10 : 10 As every person has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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

    7So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.

    8Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

    10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

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    3For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

    4For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

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    12Now I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

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    10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

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    21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours;

    22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

    23And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

    7For who makes you different from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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    5He who ministers to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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    17Since then God gave them the same gift as he did to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I that I could withstand God?

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    5And there are different administrations, but the same Lord.

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    5For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

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    3For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to each one the measure of faith.

    4For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function:

    5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

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    25Of which I was made a minister, according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;

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    10As every person has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

    11If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let him do so with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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    7Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

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    5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

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    7For I wish that all men were as I am. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

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    15Lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.

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    27Now you are the body of Christ and members individually.

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    11But I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.