1 Corinthians 3:7-11

Divisions in the Church

⁷ So _n neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸ He who plants and he who waters are one, and each _o will receive his wages according to his labor. ⁹ For we are _p God's fellow workers. You are God's field, _q God's building.

¹⁰ _r According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a _s foundation, and _t someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹ For no one can lay a _u foundation other _v than that which is laid, _w which is Jesus Christ.

1. 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.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 3:14
   If the work that anyone has built on the founda...
   1 Corinthians 15:58
   Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, i...
   2 John 1:8
   Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what...
   1 Corinthians 4:5
   Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the ...
   Galatians 6:4 - 5
   But let each one test his own work, and then hi...
   Matthew 16:27
   For the Son of Man is going to come with his an...
   Romans 2:6
   He will render to each one according to his works:
   
3. Cross References
   Mark 16:20
   And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
   2 Corinthians 6:1
   Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
   
4. Cross References
   Ephesians 2:20 - 22
   Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
   Colossians 2:7
   Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
   1 Corinthians 3:16
   Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
   Psalms 127:1
   Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Peter 3:15
   And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
   Romans 12:3
   For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 3:11 - 12
   For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
   Romans 15:20
   And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation.
   Revelation 21:14
   And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
   
7. 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.
   
8. Cross References
   Isaiah 28:16
   Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
   
9. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 11:4
   For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
   Galatians 1:6 - 7
   I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
   
10. Cross References
    Ephesians 2:20
    Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.