1 Corinthians 3:9

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

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

BSB

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, 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.

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θεοῦ theou Of God G2316 γάρ gar for G1063 ἐσμεν esmen we are G1510 συνεργοί sunergoi fellow workers G4904 θεοῦ theou God’s G2316 γεώργιον geōrgion field G1091 θεοῦ theou God’s G2316 οἰκοδομή oikodomē building G3619 ἐστε este you are G1510

The early church

"For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building." Seest thou how to them also he hath assigned no small work, having before laid it down that the whole is of God? For since he is always persuading them to obey those that have the rule over them, on this account he abstains from making very light of their teachers. "Ye are God's husbandry." For because he had said, "I planted," he kept to the metaphor. Now if ye be God's husbandry, it is right that you should be called not from those who cultivate you, but from God. For the field is not called the husbandman's, but the householder's. "Ye are God's building." Again, the building is not the workman's, but the master's. Now if ye be a building, ye must not be forced asunder: since this were no building. If ye be a farm, ye must not be divided, but be walled in with a single fence, namely, unanimity.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on 1 Corinthians

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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