8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. …
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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