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1 Corinthians 3:5

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After all, what is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants who helped you to believe. The Lord has given each of us our own work to do.

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Instead, we try to show in every way that we’re genuine servants of God. We endure through troubles, hard times, and suffering.

As people who work together with God, we ask you not to receive God’s grace and then do nothing with it.

Each of you has received a gift that you can use to serve others. You should use it as something that God has trusted you with. These gifts come in many forms.

He has given us the power to serve under a new covenant. It’s not based on the written Law of Moses; it comes from the Holy Spirit. The written Law kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Are they serving Christ? I’m serving him even more. (I’m out of my mind to talk like this!) I’ve worked much harder. I’ve been in prison more often. I’ve suffered terrible beatings. Again and again I’ve almost died.

But we’re like clay jars that hold a valuable treasure. We carry the good news around in these earthly bodies of ours to show that its mighty power comes from God and not from us.

The message we preach isn’t about ourselves. It’s about Jesus Christ as Lord, and about ourselves as your servants for his sake.

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

God has given me the grace to lay a foundation as a wise builder. Now someone else is building on it. But each one should build carefully.

God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, guiding, and speaking in different kinds of languages.

If I preach because I want to, I get a reward. If I preach because I have to, I’m only doing my duty.

So the one who plants doesn’t matter, and neither does the one who waters. It’s God who matters. He makes things grow.

John replied, “A person can receive only what is given to them from heaven.

based on reports passed down from eyewitnesses, I also have looked into everything very carefully myself, going right back to the beginning.

He gave five bags of gold to one, two bags to another, and one bag to a third. Then he left on his journey.

God appointed me to serve the church and bring the entire word of God to you.

I became a servant of this good news through the gift of God’s grace. It came through his power, which was at work in me.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was an educated man from Alexandria who knew the Scriptures very well.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the inland road over to Ephesus. When he arrived there, he found some disciples.

to serve Christ Jesus among the Gentiles. I’m like a priest of the good news, and I want the Gentiles to be an offering that pleases God because it has been made holy by the Holy Spirit.

including Paul and Apollos and Peter, and the world and life and death and the present and the future. All these things are yours,

As for our brother Apollos, I tried my best to get him to come to you with the others, but he really didn’t want to. He’ll come when it’s a better time.

So, because we have this work to do through God’s mercy, we don’t give up.

All this is from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ and gave us the task of bringing others back to him. God wants us to let them know that

But you must keep your faith steady and firm and not move away from the hope that the good news is offering you. This is the good news that you heard. It has been preached to every creature under heaven and I, Paul, am its servant.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord for giving me strength and for considering me faithful and appointing me to serve him.




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