1 Corinthians 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So neither he who plants is anything nor he who waters, but [only] God Who makes it grow and become greater.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Common English Bible

⁷ Because of this, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but the only one who is anything is God who makes it grow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:7 Cross References

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.

Psalm 90:17

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands— O prosper the work of our hands!

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Isaiah 41:29

No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

John 15:5

I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:9

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.