1 Corinthians 3:9

New Century Version

We are God’s workers, working together; you are like God’s farm, God’s house.

Cross References

Psalm 118:22

The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.

Psalm 72:16

Let the fields grow plenty of grain and the hills be covered with crops. Let the land be as fertile as Lebanon, and let the cities grow like the grass in a field.

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house; she has made its seven columns.

Isaiah 32:20

But you will be happy as you plant seeds near every stream and as you let your cattle and donkeys wander freely.

Isaiah 61:11

The earth causes plants to grow, and a garden causes the seeds planted in it to grow. In the same way the Lord God will make goodness and praise come from all the nations.

Isaiah 61:3

and to help the sorrowing people of Jerusalem. I will give them a crown to replace their ashes, and the oil of gladness to replace their sorrow, and clothes of praise to replace their spirit of sadness. Then they will be called Trees of Goodness, trees planted by the Lord to show his greatness.

Isaiah 61:5

My people, foreigners will come to tend your sheep. People from other countries will tend your fields and vineyards.

Jeremiah 2:21

But I planted you as a special vine, as a very good seed. How then did you turn into a wild vine that grows bad fruit?

Matthew 15:13

Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted himself will be pulled up by the roots.

Matthew 16:18

So I tell you, you are Peter. On this rock I will build my church, and the power of death will not be able to defeat it.

Matthew 9:37

Jesus said to his followers, “There are many people to harvest but only a few workers to help harvest them.

Mark 16:20

The followers went everywhere in the world and told the Good News to people, and the Lord helped them. The Lord proved that the Good News they told was true by giving them power to work miracles.]

Acts 4:11

Jesus is ‘the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made it grow.

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,

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 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.

Colossians 2:7

Keep your roots deep in him and have your lives built on him. Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught, and always be thankful.

1 Timothy 3:15

Then, even if I am delayed, you will know how to live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. And we are God’s house if we confidently maintain our hope.

1 Peter 2:5

You also are like living stones, so let yourselves be used to build a spiritual temple—to be holy priests who offer spiritual sacrifices to God. He will accept those sacrifices through Jesus Christ.

3 John 1:8

So we should help such people; when we do, we share in their work for the truth.