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1 Corinthians 3:5

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Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are servants who helped you come to faith. Each did what the Lord gave him to do.

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He gave one man ten thousand dollars, another four thousand dollars, and another two thousand dollars. Each was given money based on his ability. Then the man went on his trip.

They received their information from those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of God’s word from the beginning, and they passed it on to us.

John answered, “People can’t receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

A Jew named Apollos, who had been born in Alexandria, arrived in the city of Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker and knew how to use the Scriptures in a powerful way.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior provinces to get to the city of Ephesus. He met some disciples in Ephesus

to be a servant of Christ Jesus to people who are not Jewish. I serve as a priest by spreading the Good News of God. I do this in order that I might bring the nations to God as an acceptable offering, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

In the church God has appointed first apostles, next prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, then those who have the gift of healing, then those who help others, those who are managers, and those who can speak in a number of languages.

Concerning Apollos, our brother in the Christian faith: I tried hard to get him to visit you with the other Christians. He didn’t want to at this time. However, he will visit you when he has an opportunity.

As a skilled and experienced builder, I used the gift  that God gave me to lay the foundation ⌞for that building⌟. However, someone else is building on it. Each person must be careful how he builds on it.

Whether it is Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life or death, present or future things, everything belongs to you.

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is important because ⌞only⌟ God makes it grow.

If I spread the Good News willingly, I’ll have a reward. But if I spread the Good News unwillingly, I’m ⌞only⌟ doing what I’ve been entrusted to do.

Are they Christ’s servants? It’s insane to say it, but I’m a far better one. I’ve done much more work, been in prison many more times, been beaten more severely, and have faced death more often.

It’s clear that you are Christ’s letter, written as a result of our ministry. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, a letter written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

We don’t become discouraged, since God has given us this ministry through his mercy.

Our message is not about ourselves. It is about Jesus Christ as the Lord. We are your servants for his sake.

Our bodies are made of clay, yet we have the treasure of the Good News in them. This shows that the superior power of this treasure belongs to God and doesn’t come from us.

God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships.

Since we are God’s coworkers, we urge you not to let God’s kindness  be wasted on you.

Instead, our lives demonstrate that we are God’s servants. We have endured many things: suffering, distress, anxiety,

I became a servant of this Good News through God’s kindness freely given to me when his power worked ⌞in me⌟.

This is on the condition that you continue in faith without being moved from the solid foundation of the hope that the Good News contains. You’ve heard this Good News of which I, Paul, became a servant. It has been spread throughout all creation under heaven.

I became a servant of the church when God gave me the work of telling you his entire message.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord that he has trusted me and has appointed me to do his work with the strength he has given me.

Each of you as a good manager must use the gift that God has given you to serve others.




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