1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
KJV
ἐγὼ ἐφύτευσα, Ἀπολλὼς ἐπότισεν, ἀλλὰ ὁ θεὸς ηὔξανεν·
Greek NT
Ego plantavi, Apollo rigavit : sed Deus incrementum dedit.
Vulgate
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
ASV
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐξάνω
auxano
verb · 22×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
ποτίζω
potizo
verb · 15×
φυτεύω
phuteuo
verb · 11×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
Ἀπολλῶς
apollos
noun · 10×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
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6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210211.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. But what means, according to the flesh? According to what is in sight; according to the life that now is; according to the discipline of the Gentiles. Then, lest he should seem to be at variance with himself, (for he had convinced both the Proconsul, Acts 13:12 and the Areopagite, Acts 17:34 and Apollos; Acts 18:26: through Aquila and Priscilla and other wise men, too, we ha…
Just as the almighty work of God by which he brings forth and sustains our natural life does not rule out but requires the use of means, by which God, according to his infinite wisdom and goodness, has wished to exercise his power, so also the above-mentioned supernatural work of God by which he regenerates us in no way rules out or cancels the use of the gospel, which God in g…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:30 — But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
- 1Cor 2:5 — That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
- 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- 1Cor 4:14 — I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
- 1Cor 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?
- 1Cor 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?
- 1Cor 9:7 — Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
- 1Cor 9:7 — Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
- 1Cor 15:1 — Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
- 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 2Cor 3:2 — Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
- 2Cor 3:5 — Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- 2Cor 10:14 — 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:
- 2Tim 2:6 — The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
- Acts 11:18 — When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
- Acts 11:21 — And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
- Acts 14:27 — And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
- Acts 16:14 — And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
- Acts 16:14 — And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
- Acts 18:4 — And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
- Acts 18:24 — And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
- Acts 18:26 — And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
- Acts 19:1 — And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
- Acts 21:19 — And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
- Col 2:19 — And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
- Deut 32:2 — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
- Gen 26:12 — Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- Hos 10:12 — Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
- Isa 45:8 — Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created
- Isa 55:10 — For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
- Isa 55:11 — So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
- Isa 61:11 — For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the na
- John 1:13 — Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- John 15:16 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he ma
- Luke 8:11 — Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
- Luke 10:2 — Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
- Mark 4:3 — Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
- Mark 4:26 — And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
- Mark 16:20 — And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.