KJV King James Version
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
WEB World English Bible
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
ASV American Standard Version
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 3
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, [ye are] God’s building.
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1 Corinthians 3:9-10For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, [ye are] God’s building.Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.2 Corinthians 10:14-15For we stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure], as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in [preaching] the gospel of Christ:Acts 18:4-11And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:Isaiah 55:10-11For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:Acts 19:1And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,Acts 16:14And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.1 Corinthians 4:14-15I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].2 Corinthians 3:2-5Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:1 Corinthians 9:7-11Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?Psalm 92:13-15Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.Acts 18:26-27And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.Acts 14:27And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.Psalm 62:9Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Acts 18:24And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
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