1 Corinthians 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministering servants [not heads of parties] through whom you believed, even as the Lord appointed to each his task:

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.

Common English Bible

⁵ After all, what is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants who helped you to believe. Each one had a role given to them by the Lord:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ The ministers of him whom you have believed; and to every one as the Lord hath given.

1 Corinthians 3:5 Cross References

Matthew 25:15

to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. At once

Luke 1:2

just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

John 3:27

John answered, “No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven.

Acts 18:24

Now there came to Ephesus a Jew named Apollos from Alexandria. He was an eloquent man, well-versed in the scriptures.

Acts 19:1

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 16:12

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers and sisters, but he was not at all willing to come now. He will come when he has the opportunity.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.

1 Corinthians 3:22

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this of my own will, I have a wage, but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 3:3

and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

Ephesians 3:7

Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.

Colossians 1:25

I became its minister according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

1 Timothy 1:12

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful and appointed me to his service,

1 Peter 4:10

Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.