1 Corinthians 3:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

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  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',
  • 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, 2 and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
  • 1 Cor 12:4-9 : 4 And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit; 5 and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord; 6 and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all. 7 And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit; 8 for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 9 and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit; 10 and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues: 11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.
  • 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.
  • Luke 1:2 : 2 as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --
  • John 3:27 : 27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
  • Rom 10:14-15 : 14 How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? 15 and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'
  • Rom 12:3-6 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith, 4 for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, 5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another. 6 And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
  • Eph 3:7 : 7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;
  • Col 1:25 : 25 of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,
  • 1 Pet 4:10 : 10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

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  • 1 Cor 3:6-10
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    6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

    7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

    8 and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

    9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

    10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

    4 for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

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    12 and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'

    13 Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

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    10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;

    11 whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

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    21 So then, let no one glory 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 about to be -- all are yours,

    23 and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

    7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

  • 5 He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith `is it'?

  • 17 if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'

  • 5 and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;

  • 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • Rom 12:3-5
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    3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

    4 for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

    5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

  • 25 of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

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    10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

    11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

  • 11 and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers,

  • 2 if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • 7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

  • 1 Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

  • 2 if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

  • 5 through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

  • 6 And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

  • 5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

  • 5 for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

  • 3 and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

  • 2 Cor 3:5-6
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    5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

    6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

  • 17 if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

  • 7 as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

  • 7 for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

  • 15 that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

  • 5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

  • 27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

  • 16 that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us' and labouring;

  • 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

  • 5 for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --

  • 2 our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

  • 5 that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

  • 11 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,