1 Corinthians 3:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:5 : 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 But he said to me,“My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us! But to your name bring honor, for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

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  • 1 Cor 3:5-6
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    5What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

    6I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

  • 1 Cor 3:8-11
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    8The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

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

  • 2 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

    11You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

  • John 4:36-37
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    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

    27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • 1 Cor 12:6
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    6And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

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

    38But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption 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 ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

  • John 15:5
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    5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
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    21So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

  • Eph 2:9
    68%

    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

  • 2 Cor 1:21
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    21But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

  • Ps 1:3
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    3He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13And he replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

  • Job 5:10
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    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

    7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received 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 stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

  • Jer 17:8
    67%

    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

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

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

    11If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

  • Ps 67:6
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    6The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

  • 1 Cor 2:5
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    5so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

  • Gen 1:11
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    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

  • 1 Cor 3:14
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    14If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

  • Gal 3:5
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    5Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?