1 Corinthians 3:5

New Century Version

Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.

Cross References

Matthew 25:15

He gave one servant five bags of gold, another servant two bags of gold, and a third servant one bag of gold, to each one as much as he could handle. Then he left.

Luke 1:2

They have written the same things that we learned from others—the people who saw those things from the beginning and served God by telling people his message.

John 3:27

John answered, “A man can get only what God gives him.

Acts 18:24

A Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was born in the city of Alexandria and was a good speaker who knew the Scriptures well.

Acts 19:1

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was visiting some places on the way to Ephesus. There he found some followers

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to those who are not Jews. I served God by teaching his Good News, so that the non-Jewish people could be an offering that God would accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:28

In the church God has given a place first to apostles, second to prophets, and third to teachers. Then God has given a place to those who do miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who can help others, those who are able to govern, and those who can speak in different languages.

1 Corinthians 16:12

Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers. He did not at all want to come now; he will come when he has the opportunity.

1 Corinthians 3:10

Using the gift God gave me, I laid the foundation of that house like an expert builder. Others are building on that foundation, but all people should be careful how they build on it.

1 Corinthians 3:22

Paul, Apollos, and Peter; the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these belong to you.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God, who makes things grow, is important.

1 Corinthians 9:17

If I preach because it is my own choice, I have a reward. But if I preach and it is not my choice to do so, I am only doing the duty that was given to me.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than they. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.

2 Corinthians 3:3

You show that you are a letter from Christ sent through us. This letter is not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on stone tablets but on human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:1

God, with his mercy, gave us this work to do, so we don’t give up.

2 Corinthians 4:5

We do not preach about ourselves, but we preach that Jesus Christ is Lord and that we are your servants for Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure from God, but we are like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that the great power is from God, not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is from God. Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself, and God gave us the work of telling everyone about the peace we can have with him.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We are workers together with God, so we beg you: Do not let the grace that you received from God be for nothing.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in every way we show we are servants of God: in accepting many hard things, in troubles, in difficulties, and in great problems.

Ephesians 3:7

By God’s special gift of grace given to me through his power, I became a servant to tell that Good News.

Colossians 1:23

This will happen if you continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope brought to you by the Good News that you heard. That same Good News has been told to everyone in the world, and I, Paul, help in preaching that Good News.

Colossians 1:25

I became a servant of the church because God gave me a special work to do that helps you, and that work is to tell fully the message of God.

1 Timothy 1:12

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who gave me strength, because he trusted me and gave me this work of serving him.

1 Peter 4:10

Each of you has received a gift to use to serve others. Be good servants of God’s various gifts of grace.