1 Corinthians 3:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3:9-10
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. …
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
2 Corinthians 10:14-15
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: …
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
Acts 18:4-11
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. …

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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 th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. I ... planted, Apollos watered--(Ac 18:1; 19:1). Apollos at his own desire (Ac 18:27) was sent by the brethren to Corinth, and there followed up the work which Paul had begun. God gave the increase--that is, the growth (1Co 3:10; Ac 18:27). “Believed through grace.” Though ministers are nothing, and God all in all, yet God works by instruments, and promises the Holy Spirit in the faithful use o…