To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent, depending on each one’s ability. Then he went on a journey. Immediately
1 Corinthians 3:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministering servants [not heads of parties] through whom you believed, even as the Lord appointed to each his task: American Standard Version (1901) What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. Common English Bible After all, what is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants who helped you to believe. Each one had a role given to them by the Lord: Catholic Public Domain Version We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The ministers of him whom you have believed; and to every one as the Lord hath given. |
To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent, depending on each one’s ability. Then he went on a journey. Immediately
just as the original eye-witnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.
John responded, ‘No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Now a Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was competent in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.
While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul travelled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the gospel of God. God’s purpose is that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.
Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.
According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it.
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come #– #everything is yours,
So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a commission.
Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman #– #I’m a better one: with far more labours, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.
You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God #– #not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. ,
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.
For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
Working together with him, we also appeal to you, ‘Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.’
Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,
I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of his power.
if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,
I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful, appointing me to the ministry #– #
Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.