Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
Book of 1 Corinthians
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Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:5 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:5 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:5 JFB -> Commentary on 3:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:5 PNT -> Commentary on 3:5 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:5 TSK -> Commentary on 3:5 TSK -> Entry for 3:5 WEN -> Notes on 3:5 NTB -> Apollos; Deacon; Zeal, Religious TTT -> Faith EBD -> Apollos; Humility; Minister PWP -> Devotional using 3:5 3:5 - [In Context] Who is Apollos, and who is Paul, that we should be the cause of such quarrels? Why, we're only servants. Through us God caused you to believe. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:6 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:6 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:6 JFB -> Commentary on 3:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:6 PNT -> Commentary on 3:6 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:6 TSK -> Commentary on 3:6 TSK -> Entry for 3:6 WEN -> Notes on 3:6 NTB -> Apollos; Irrigation; Power; Regeneration; Works; Zeal, Religious TTT -> Agriculture or Husbandry; Power of God, The EBD -> Apollos; Humility SBD -> Corinthians, First Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 3:6 3:6 - [In Context] My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:7 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:7 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:7 JFB -> Commentary on 3:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:7 PNT -> Commentary on 3:7 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:7 TSK -> Commentary on 3:7 TSK -> Entry for 3:7 WEN -> Notes on 3:7 NTB -> Apollos; Minister, Christian; Partnership; Power; Regeneration; Works; Zeal, Religious TTT -> Agriculture or Husbandry; Ministers; Power of God, The EBD -> Apollos; Humility PWP -> Devotional using 3:7 3:7 - [In Context] The ones who do the planting or watering aren't important, but God is important because he is the one who makes the seed grow.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:8 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:8 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:8 JFB -> Commentary on 3:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:8 PNT -> Commentary on 3:8 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:8 SRN -> Study Notes on 3:8 TSK -> Commentary on 3:8 TSK -> Entry for 3:8 WEN -> Notes on 3:8 NTB -> Irrigation; Judgment; Minister, Christian; Power; Responsibility; Reward; Works TTT -> Agriculture or Husbandry; Power of God, The PWP -> Devotional using 3:8 3:8 - [In Context] The one who plants and the one who waters work as a team with the same purpose. Yet they will be rewarded individually, according to their own hard work.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 3:9 DSN -> Synopsis on 3:9 GEB -> Study Notes on 3:9 JFB -> Commentary on 3:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 3:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 3:9 PNT -> Commentary on 3:9 RWP -> Study Notes on 3:9 TSK -> Commentary on 3:9 TSK -> Entry for 3:9 WEN -> Notes on 3:9 NTB -> Church; God (continued); Husbandman; Minister, Christian; Partnership; Regeneration; Works TTT -> Agriculture or Husbandry; Titles and Names of the Church EBD -> Building UTM -> Devotional using 3:9 PWP -> Devotional using 3:9 PWP -> Devotional using 3:9 3:9 - [In Context] We work together as partners who belong to God. You are God's field, God's building – not ours.

Abbreviations Legend: BCC - Burton Coffman; DSN - Darby's Synopsis; GEB - Gill's Exposition; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; PNT - People's New Testament; RWP - Robertson's Word Pictures; SRN - Scofield Reference Notes; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; PWP - Praying With Paul; UTM - My Utmost for His Highest; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible, The New Living Translation copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved. For more information about the NLT, please click here.