1 Corinthians 3:5-7

Divisions in the Church

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? _i Servants through whom you believed, _j as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶ _k I planted, _l Apollos watered, _m but God gave the growth. ⁷ So _n neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 6:4
   But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities.
   Ephesians 3:7
   Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
   Colossians 1:25
   Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known.
   2 Corinthians 3:3
   And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 12:6
   Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 4:15
   For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
   1 Corinthians 9:1
   Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
   1 Corinthians 15:1
   Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
   Acts 18:4 - 11
   And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
   2 Corinthians 10:14 - 15
   For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 18:27
   And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:10
   But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
   Colossians 1:18
   And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 12:11
   I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
   Galatians 6:3
   For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
   Galatians 2:6
   And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.