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1 Corinthians 3:6
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I planted the seed and Apollos watered it. But God is the one who made the seed grow.
I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace.
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God kept everything growing.Acts 18:4,8, 11,24, 27; 19:1; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 4:15; 9:1; 2 Corinthians 3:5; 10:14-15;">[xr]
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made it grow.
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the increase.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.
Y plauntide, Apollo moystide, but God yaf encreessyng.
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
I planted the seeds, Apollos watered them, but God made them sprout and grow.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
I have planted, and Apollo watered, but Aloha made to increase.
I planted, and Apollos watered; but God produced the growth.
I haue planted, Apollo watered: but God gaue the encrease.
I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
I planted the seed. Apollos watered it, but it was God Who kept it growing.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
I haue planted, Apollos watred, but God gaue the increase.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I, planted, Apollos, watered, - but, God, caused to, grow.
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.
I haue planted, Apollo watered: but God gaue the encrease.
I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God who made the plant grow.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing it to grow.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
I haue planted, Apollo hath watred, but God hath geuen the increase.
I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.
I did the groundwork with you. Apollos started you under saddle, but it was God who was doing the growin' inside ya.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I: 1 Corinthians 3:9, 1 Corinthians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 4:14, 1 Corinthians 4:15, 1 Corinthians 9:1, 1 Corinthians 9:7-11, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Acts 18:4-11, 2 Corinthians 10:14, 2 Corinthians 10:15
Apollos: Proverbs 11:25, Acts 18:24, Acts 18:26, Acts 18:27, Acts 19:1
God: 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Psalms 62:9, Psalms 62:11, Psalms 92:13-15, Psalms 127:1, Isaiah 55:10, Isaiah 55:11, Isaiah 61:11, Acts 11:18, Acts 14:27, Acts 16:14, Acts 21:19, Romans 15:18, 2 Corinthians 3:2-5, 1 Thessalonians 1:5
Reciprocal: Genesis 26:12 - an hundredfold Leviticus 26:20 - for your land Deuteronomy 32:2 - drop 2 Samuel 23:5 - to grow Psalms 65:10 - settlest the furrows thereof Psalms 67:6 - Then Psalms 72:16 - There Psalms 85:12 - our land Isaiah 32:20 - Blessed Isaiah 45:8 - let the earth Ezekiel 44:19 - sanctify Hosea 10:12 - rain Micah 5:7 - as a dew Zechariah 10:1 - and give Mark 4:3 - there Mark 4:26 - as Mark 16:20 - the Lord Luke 8:11 - The seed Luke 10:2 - The harvest Luke 20:9 - planted John 1:13 - nor of the will of man John 15:16 - bring Acts 11:21 - and a 1 Corinthians 2:5 - but 2 Corinthians 3:5 - but 2 Corinthians 4:5 - we Colossians 2:19 - increaseth 2 Timothy 2:6 - husbandman
Cross-References
Romans 5:12-21">[xr] Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, "You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have planted,.... That is, ministerially; otherwise the planting of souls in Christ, and the implanting of grace in them, are things purely divine, and peculiar to God, and the power of his grace; but his meaning is, that he was at Corinth, as in other places, the first that preached the Gospel to them; and was an instrument of the conversion of many souls, and of laying the foundation, and of raising and forming a Gospel church state, and of planting them in it;
Apollos watered; he followed after, and his ministry was blessed for edification; he was a means of carrying on the superstructure, and of building up souls in faith and holiness, and of making them fruitful in every good word and work: each minister of the Gospel has his proper gifts, work, and usefulness; some are planters, others waterers; some are employed in hewing down the sturdy oaks, and others in squaring and fitting, and laying them in the building; some are "Boanergeses", sons of thunder, and are mostly useful in conviction and conversion; and others are "Barnabases", sons of consolation, who are chiefly made use of in comforting and edifying the saints: but God gave the increase: for as the gardener may put his plants into the earth, and water them when he has so done, but cannot cause them to grow, this is owing to a divine blessing; and as the husbandman tills his ground, casts the seed into it, and waits for the former and latter rain, but cannot cause it to spring up, or increase to perfection, this is done by a superior influence; so ministers of the Gospel plant and water, cast in the seed of the word, preach the Gospel, but all the success is from the Lord; God only causes it to spring up and grow; it is he that gives it its increasing, spreading, fructifying virtue and efficacy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have planted - The apostle here compares the establishment of the church at Corinth to the planting of a vine, a tree, or of grain. The figure is taken from agriculture, and the meaning is obvious. Paul established the church. He was the first preacher in Corinth; and if any distinction was due to anyone, it was rather to him than to the teachers who had labored there subsequently; but he regarded himself as worthy of no such honor as to be the head of a party, for it was not himself, but God who had given the increase.
Apollos watered - This figure is taken from the practice of watering a tender plant, or of watering a garden or field. This was necessary in a special manner in Eastern countries. Their fields became parched and dry from their long droughts, and it was necessary to irrigate them by artificial means. The sense here is, that Paul had labored in establishing the church at Corinth; but that subsequently Apollos had labored to increase it, and to build it, up. It is certain that Apollos did not go to Corinth until after Paul had left it; see Acts 18:18; compare Acts 18:27.
God gave the increase - God caused the seed sown to take root and spring up; and God blessed the irrigation of the tender plants as they sprung up, and caused them to grow. This idea is still taken from the farmer. It would be vain for the farmer to sow his seed unless God would give it life. There is no life in the seed, nor is there any inherent power in the earth to make it grow. Only God, the Giver of all life, can quicken the germ in the seed, and make it live. So it would be in vain for the farmer to water his plant unless God would bless it. There is no living principle in the water; no inherent power in the rains of heaven to make the plant grow. It is adapted, indeed, to this, and the seed would not germinate if it was not planted, nor grow if it was not watered; but the life is still from God. He arranged these means, and he gives life to the tender blade, and sustains it. And so it is with the word of life. It has no inherent power to produce effect by itself. The power is not in the naked word, nor in him that plants, nor in him that waters, nor in the heart where it is sown, but in God. But there is a Fitness of the means to the end. The word is adapted to save the soul. The seed must be sown or it will not germinate. Truth must be sown in the heart, and the heart must be prepared for it - as the earth must be plowed and made mellow, or it will not spring up. It must be cultivated with assiduous care, or it will produce nothing. But still it is all of God - as much so as the yellow harvest of the field, after all the toils of the farmer is of God. And as the farmer who has just views, will take no praise to himself because his grain and his vine start up and grow after all his care, but will ascribe all to God’s unceasing, beneficent agency; so will the minister of religion, and so will every Christian, after all their care, ascribe all to God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:6. I have planted — I first sowed the seed of the Gospel at Corinth, and in the region of Achaia.
Apollos watered — Apollos came after me, and, by his preachings and exhortations, watered the seed which I had sowed; but God gave the increase. The seed has taken root, has sprung up, and borne much fruit; but this was by the especial blessing of God. As in the natural so in the spiritual world; it is by the especial blessing of God that the grain which is sown in the ground brings forth thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold: it is neither the sower nor the waterer that produces this strange and inexplicable multiplication; it is God alone. So it is by the particular agency of the Spirit of God that even good seed, sown in good ground, the purest doctrine conveyed to the honest heart, produces the salvation of the soul.
