1 Corinthians 3:6

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ ἐφύτευσα, Ἀπολλὼς ἐπότισεν· ἀλλʼ ὁ Θεὸς ηὔξανεν.

Transliteration

Egō ephyteusa, Apollōs epotisen; but the Theos ēuxanen.

Grammar Details

• *Egō*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular, nominative - I
• *ephyteusa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I planted
• *Apollōs*: proper noun, masculine, nominative, singular - Apollos
• *epotisen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he watered
• *Theos*: noun, masculine, nominative, singular - God
• *ēuxanen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was giving growth

Word Meanings

• *ephyteusa*: planted/established
• *epotisen*: watered/nourished
• *ēuxanen*: was causing to grow/was increasing

Referenced Verses

• Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he preached in ye synagoge every saboth daye and exhorted the Iewes and the gentyls. 5 When Sylas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia Paul was constrayned by the sprete to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was very Christ. 6 And whe they sayde cotrary and blasphemed he shoke his rayment and sayde vnto the: youre bloud apon youre awne heeddes and fro hence forth I goo blamelesse vnto ye gentyls. 7 And he departed thence and entred into a certayne manes housse named Iustus a worshiper of god whose housse ioyned harde to ye synagoge. 8 How be it one Crispus ye chefe rular of the synagoge beleved on ye LORde with all his housholde and many of the Corinthias gave audience and beleved and were baptised. 9 Then spake the LORde to Paul in the nyght by a vision: be not afrayde but speake and holde not thy peace: 10 for I am with the and no man shall invade the that shall hurte the. For I have moche people in this cite. 11 And he continued there a yeare and sixe monethes and taught them the worde of God.
• Acts 18:26-27 : 26 And the same began to speake boldely in the synagoge. And when Aquila and Priscilla had hearde him: they toke him vnto them and expounded vnto him the waye of God more perfectly. 27 And when he was disposed to goo into Acaia the brethren wrote exhortynge the disciples to receave him. After he was come thyther he holpe them moche which had beleved thorowe grace.
• 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not fre? have I not sene Iesus Christ oure LORde?
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 And vnto him partayne ye in Christ Iesu which of God is made vnto vs wysdome and also rightewesnes and saunctifyinge and redempcion.
• 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 We are goddis labourers ye are goddis husbandrye ye are goddis byldynge. 10 Accordynge to the grace of god geven vnto me as a wyse bylder have I layde the foundacio And another bylt thero But let every ma take hede how he bildeth apo.
• 2 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 For we stretche uot out oure selves beyode measure as though we had not reached vnto you. For even vnto you have we come with the gospell of Christ 15 and we bost not oure selves out of measure in other mens labours. Ye and we hope when youre fayth is increased amoge you to be magnified acordynge to oure measure more largely
• 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes.
• 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you. 15 For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu I have begotten you thorowe ye gospell.
• 1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 who goeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost? who planteth a vynearde and eateth not of the frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke? 8 Saye I these thinges after the manner of men? Or sayth not the lawe the same also? 9 For it ys written in the lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for oxen? 10 Ether sayth he it not all to gedder for oure sakes? For oure sakes no doute this is written: that he which eareth shuld eare in hope: and that he which thressheth in hope shuld be parttaker of his hope. 11 Yf we sowe vnto you spirituall thynges: is it a greate thynge yf we reepe youre carnall thynges
• 1 Cor 15:1-9 : 1 Brethren as pertayninge to the gospell which I preached vnto you which ye have also accepted and in the which ye continue 2 by which also ye are saved: I do you to wit after what maner I preached vnto you yf ye kepe it except ye have beleved in vayne. 3 For fyrst of all I delivered vnto you that which I receaved: how that Christ dyed for oure synnes agreinge to the scriptures: 4 and that he was buried and that he arose agayne the thyrd daye accordinge to the scriptures: 5 and that he he was sene of Cephas then of the twelve. 6 After that he was sene of moo the five hodred brethren at once: of which many remayne vnto this daye and many are fallen aslepe. 7 After that appered he to Iames then to all the Apostles. 8 And last of all he was sene of me as of one that was borne out of due tyme. 9 For I am the lest of all the Apostles which am not worthy to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the congregacion of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vayne: but I labored moare aboundauntly then they all not I but the grace of God which is with me. 11 Whether it were I or they so we preache and so have ye beleved.
• 2 Cor 3:2-5 : 2 Ye are oure pistle written in oure hertes which is vnderstonde and reed of all men 3 in that ye are knowen how that ye are the pistle of Christ ministred by vs and written not with ynke: but with the sprete of the livynge God not in tables of stone but in flesshly tables of ye herte. 4 Suche trust have we thorow Christ to god ward 5 not that we are sufficient of oure selves to thinke enythinge as it were of oure selves: but oure ablenes cometh of God
• Acts 19:1 : 1 It fortuned whyll Appollo was at Corinthum that Paul passed thorow the vpper costes and came to Ephesus and foude certayne disciples
• Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had saluted them he tolde by order all thinges that God had wrought amoge the getyls by his ministracion.
• Rom 15:18 : 18 For I dare not speake of eny of tho thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the gentyls obedient with worde and dede
• Acts 18:24 : 24 And a certayne Iewe named Apollos borne at Alexandria came to Ephesus an eloquent man and myghty in the scriptures.
• Acts 11:18 : 18 when they hearde this they helde their peace and gloryfied God sayinge: then hath God also to the gentyls graunted repentaunce vnto lyfe.
• Acts 14:27 : 27 When they were come and had gaddered the congregacion to gedder they rehersed all that God had done by them and how he had opened the dore of faith vnto the getyls.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certayne woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the cite of Thiatira which worshipped God gave vs audience. Whose hert the Lorde opened that she attended vnto the thinges which Paul spake.