"Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?" — 1 Corinthians 3:5

1 Corinthians 3:5 · KJV

“Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?”

— 1 Corinthians 3:5

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I {am} of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

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

1 Corinthians 3 — Context

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I {am} of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

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

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in all {things} approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {approving: Gr. commending}

2 Corinthians 6:1

We then, {as} workers together {with him}, beseech {you} also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

1 Peter 4:10

As every man hath received the gift, {even so} minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

2 Corinthians 3:6

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}

1 Corinthians 3:10

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.

2 Corinthians 3:3

{Forasmuch as ye are} manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {am} more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.