Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 3:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?”
1 Corinthians 3:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I {am} of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
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