5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
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But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here the apostle instructs them how to cure this humour, and rectify what was amiss among them upon this head, I. By reminding them that the ministers about whom they contended were but ministers: Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed? Even as the Lord gave to every man , 1 Cor. 3:5. They are but ministers, mere instruments used by the God of all grace. Some of t…
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