1 Corinthians 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

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  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a 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 was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
  • 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
  • 1 Cor 12:4-9 : 4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. 6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit; 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
  • 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
  • John 3:27 : 27 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
  • Rom 10:14-15 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
  • Rom 12:3-6 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
  • Eph 3:7 : 7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
  • Col 1:25 : 25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
  • 1 Pet 4:10 : 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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    6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

    7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

    8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

    4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

  • 1 Cor 1:12-13
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    12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

    13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

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    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

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

    22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

    23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

    7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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

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    17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

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    5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

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    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

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    3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

    4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

    5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • Col 1:25
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    25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

  • 1 Pet 4:10-11
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    10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

    11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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    11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

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    2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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    7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

  • 1 Cor 4:1
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    1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

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    2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

  • Rom 1:5
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    5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

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    6 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

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    3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

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

    6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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    17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

  • Col 1:7
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    7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

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    7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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    15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

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    5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

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    16 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

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    24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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    5 For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

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    2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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    5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

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