Verse 6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

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  • Acts 18:26-27 : 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. 27 And when he desired to cross into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,
  • Acts 18:4-9 : 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 5 And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. 6 And when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, 'Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.' 7 And he departed from there and entered a certain man's house named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized. 9 Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent, 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.' 11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.
  • Prov 11:25 : 25 The generous soul shall be made rich, and he who waters shall be watered also himself.
  • 1 Cor 9:1 : 1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
  • 2 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 For we do not extend ourselves beyond our measure, as though we did not reach to you: for we have come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 For our gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and in full conviction; as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.
  • 1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? 8 Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen? 10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. 11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
  • 1 Cor 15:1-9 : 1 Moreover, brothers and sisters, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, and in which you stand; 2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; 4 And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures: 5 And that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve: 6 After that, He was seen by over five hundred brothers and sisters at once; of whom the greater part remain to this present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that, He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 And last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
  • 2 Cor 3:2-5 : 2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men. 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart. 4 And such trust we have through Christ toward God: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
  • Acts 11:18 : 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they had arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened, so she heeded the things spoken by Paul.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 62:11 : 11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.
  • Ps 92:13-15 : 13 Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing, 15 To show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
  • Acts 18:24 : 24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
  • Acts 19:1 : 1 And it came to pass, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper regions and came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples,
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had greeted them, he declared in detail what things God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,