9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
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Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; …
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
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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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