1 Corinthians 3:9 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

We are God's coworkers. You are God's field. You are God's building.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

ASV:

For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

BBE:

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

DBY:

For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

ERV:

For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

WEY:

Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are *God's* field-- *God's* building.

WBS:

For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

WEB:

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

YLT:

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

1 Corinthians 3:9 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 61:3 To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Matthew 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

Mark 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 6:1 And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain--

Ephesians 2:20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

Colossians 2:7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:9 For we are {e} labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
(e) Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is given them of grace, which grace makes them fit for that service. See 1Co 15:10, 2Co 3:6. All the increase that comes by their labour proceeds from God in such a way that no part of the praise of it may be given to the servant.

PNT:

3:9 For we are labourers together with God. The ASV gives the true meaning: For we are God's fellow-workers. They, he and Apollos, were fellow-laborers belonging to God (of God, not with God). They were fellow-laborers with each other, of God.
Ye are God's husbandry. Husbandry is obscure. The Greek word georgion means tilled land. The Corinthian church was God's field in which they labored.
[Ye are] God's building. The figure is now changed. Paul and Apollos are God's builders, and the church is the building they build. The leading idea is that they are only God's employees. How can Paul have a party, then, and Apollos another, when they are only employees of God?

WES:

3:9 For we are all fellowlabourers - God's labourers, and fellowlabourers with each other. Ye are God's husbandry - This is the sum of what went before: it is a comprehensive word, taking in both a field, a garden, and a vineyard. Ye are God's building - This is the sum of what follows.

MHC:

3:5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed by one Master, trusted with the same revelation, busied in one work, and engaged in one design. They have their different gifts from one and the same Spirit, for the very same purposes; and should carry on the same design heartily. Those who work hardest shall fare best. Those who are most faithful shall have the greatest reward. They work together with God, in promoting the purposes of his glory, and the salvation of precious souls; and He who knows their work, will take care they do not labour in vain. They are employed in his husbandry and building; and He will carefully look over them.

CONC:

Apollos Building Farming Fellow Fellow-workers Fellow-workmen Field God's Husbandry Laborers Labourers Planting Simply Tillage Workers

Apollos Building Farming Fellow Fellow-Workers Fellow-Workmen Field God's Labourers Planting Simply Tillage Together Workers

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