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1 Corinthians 3:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. "

1 Corinthians 3:8

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6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

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1 Corinthians 3:1

"Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ."

1 Corinthians 3:2

"I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,"

1 Corinthians 3:3

"for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?"

1 Corinthians 3:4

"For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?"

1 Corinthians 3:5

"Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?"

1 Corinthians 3:6

"I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase."

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