KJV King James Version
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, [ye are] God’s building.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, [ye are] God’s building.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
WEB World English Bible
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
ASV American Standard Version
For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God’s tillage, God’s building ye are.
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 3
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.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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1 Peter 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Ephesians 2:20-22And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone];2 Corinthians 6:1We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.1 Corinthians 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?Mark 16:20And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with [them], and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.Matthew 9:37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few;Isaiah 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.John 15:1-8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.1 Corinthians 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?John 4:35-38Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.Colossians 2:7Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.Acts 4:11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.3 John 1:8We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.Isaiah 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.1 Timothy 3:15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.Matthew 21:23-44And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
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