1 Corinthians 3:6 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

KJV

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ASV

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

WEB

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

YLT

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

DBT

I have planted; Apollos watered; butGod has given the increase.

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Luke 10:2
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
1 Corinthians 3:9–10
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Genesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

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Note, God makes use of variety of instruments, and fits them to their several uses and intentions. Paul was fitted for planting work, and Apollos for watering work, but God gave the increase. Note, The success of the ministry must be derived from the divine blessing: Neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth, but God who giveth the increase,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Apollos at his own desire (Ac 18:27) was sent by the brethren to Corinth, and there followed up the work which Paul had begun. God gave the increase--that is, the growth (1Co 3:10; "Believed through grace." Though ministers are nothing, and God all in all, yet God works by instruments, and promises the Holy Spirit in the faithful use of means.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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