Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
1 Corinthians 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was making it grow and [He] gave the increase. American Standard Version (1901) I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Common English Bible I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow. Catholic Public Domain Version I planted, Apollo watered, but God provided the growth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase. |
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water.
For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
When they heard this, they were silenced. And they praised God, saying, “Then God has given even to the gentiles the repentance that leads to life.”
When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them and how he had opened a door of faith for the gentiles.
A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul.
Now there came to Ephesus a Jew named Apollos from Alexandria. He was an eloquent man, well-versed in the scriptures.
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples.
After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the gentiles through his ministry.
For I will not be so bold as to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the gentiles, by word and deed,
What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”
In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.
because our message of the gospel came to you not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of persons we proved to be among you for your sake.