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1 Corinthians 3:7
1 Corinthians 3:7 is verse 7 of 1 Corinthians chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
King James Version
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
World English Bible
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
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1 Corinthians 3:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.
6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Psalms 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
John 15:5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.