1 Corinthians 3:9

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1 Corinthians 3:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

Matthew 9:37

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

Mark 16:20

And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

3 John 1:8

Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Psalms 65:9

You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

Psalms 65:10

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

Psalms 65:11

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

Psalms 65:12

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.

Psalms 65:13

The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

Psalms 72:16

May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.

Psalms 80:8

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Psalms 80:9

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

Psalms 80:10

The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Psalms 80:11

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

Isaiah 5:1

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Isaiah 5:2

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Isaiah 5:3

“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

Isaiah 27:3

I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Isaiah 28:25

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

Isaiah 28:26

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Isaiah 28:27

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 28:28

Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 28:29

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.

Isaiah 61:3

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Jeremiah 2:21

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Matthew 13:3

And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Matthew 13:4

And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Matthew 13:5

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Matthew 13:7

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

Matthew 13:8

Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Matthew 13:18

Consider, then, the parable of the sower:

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

Matthew 13:20

The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

Matthew 13:21

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:23

But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”

Matthew 13:24

Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

Matthew 13:25

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Matthew 13:26

When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:27

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

Matthew 13:28

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

Matthew 13:29

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 13:37

He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

Matthew 13:39

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

Matthew 13:40

As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.

Matthew 13:42

And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 20:1

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3

About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Matthew 20:4

‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’

Matthew 20:5

So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:6

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

Matthew 20:7

‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:8

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’

Matthew 20:9

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.

Matthew 20:10

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

Matthew 20:11

On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.

Matthew 20:12

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:13

But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Matthew 20:14

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Matthew 21:23

When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

Matthew 21:24

“I will also ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Matthew 21:25

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Matthew 21:26

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the people, for they all regard John as a prophet.”

Matthew 21:27

So they answered, “We do not know.” And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Matthew 21:28

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

Matthew 21:29

‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.

Matthew 21:30

Then the man went to the second son and told him the same thing. ‘I will, sir,’ he said. But he did not go.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

Matthew 21:33

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

Matthew 21:34

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

Matthew 21:37

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

Matthew 21:39

So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Matthew 21:40

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”

Matthew 21:41

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Matthew 21:43

Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Matthew 21:44

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Mark 4:26

Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

Mark 4:27

Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

Mark 4:28

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

Mark 4:29

And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

John 4:35

Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

John 4:36

Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

John 4:37

For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

John 4:38

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

John 15:4

Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

John 15:5

I 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.

John 15:6

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

John 15:7

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 15:8

This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Psalms 118:22

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Amos 9:11

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Amos 9:12

that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

Zechariah 6:12

And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.

Zechariah 6:13

Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Acts 4:11

This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Ephesians 2:20

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Ephesians 2:21

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

Ephesians 2:22

And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:3

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

Hebrews 3:4

And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

1 Peter 2:5

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.