1 Corinthians 3:9
Good News Translation
For we are partners working together for God, and you are God's field. You are also God's building.

New Revised Standard Version
For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Contemporary English Version
Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.

New American Bible
For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

we.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

Matthew 9:37 Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.

Mark 16:20 But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

2 Corinthians 6:1 And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

3 John 1:8 We therefore ought to receive such: that we may be fellow helpers of the truth.

ye are God's.

Psalm 65:9-13 Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation. . . .

Psalm 72:16 And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

Psalm 80:8-11 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. . . .

Isaiah 5:1-7 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. . . .

Isaiah 27:2,3 In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine. . . .

Isaiah 28:24-29 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground? . . .

Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

Isaiah 61:3,5,11 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him. . . .

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard?

Matthew 13:3-9,18-30,36-42 And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow. . . .

Matthew 20:1-14 The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. . . .

Matthew 21:23-44 And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority? . . .

Mark 4:26-29 And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, . . .

John 4:35-38 Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest. . . .

John 15:1-8 I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman. . . .

husbandry.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?

Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.

Amos 9:11,12 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us. . . .

Zechariah 6:12,13 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he spring up, and shall build a temple to the Lord. . . .

Matthew 16:18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 2:10,20-22 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. . . .

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Hebrews 3:3,4,6 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. . . .

1 Peter 2:5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Context
God's Fellow Workers
8Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. 9For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building. 10According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.…
Cross References
Proverbs 9:1
She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.

Isaiah 61:3
To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Matthew 15:13
But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Mark 16:20
But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

John 15:1
I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.

1 Corinthians 3:16
Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2 Corinthians 6:1
And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Ephesians 2:20
Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

Ephesians 2:22
In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

1 Peter 2:5
Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:8
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