1 Corinthians 3:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:5 : 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Ps 115:1 : 1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 3:5-6
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    92%

    5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

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

  • 1 Cor 3:8-11
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    85%

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

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

    10According 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.

    11For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:10-11
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    72%

    10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

    11you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

  • John 4:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he 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: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

    27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

    28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

  • Ps 107:37
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    37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • Col 2:19
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    19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

  • 1 Cor 12:6
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    6There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

  • 1 Cor 15:37-38
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    37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

    38But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
    68%

    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

  • John 15:5
    68%

    5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:21
    68%

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

  • Eph 2:9
    68%

    9not of works, that no one would boast.

  • 2 Cor 1:21
    68%

    21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

  • Ps 1:3
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    3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

  • Job 5:10
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    10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Now 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.

    7For 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?

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

  • Jer 17:8
    67%

    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10But 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.

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

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Ps 67:6
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    6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • 1 Cor 2:5
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    5that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

  • Gen 1:11
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    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

  • 1 Cor 3:14
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    14If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

  • Gal 3:5
    66%

    5He 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?