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1 Corinthians 3:5

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

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and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus,

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all `his' will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me' to the ministration,

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;




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