1 Corinthians 3:6 Cross References - NSB

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

⁹ Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

¹¹ God has spoken once. I have heard it said twice: Power belongs to God.

¹³ They are planted in Jehovah’s house. They blossom in our God's courtyards. ¹⁴ Even when they are old, they still bear fruit. They are always healthy and fresh. ¹⁵ They make it known that Jehovah is upright. He is my rock. He is never unrighteous.

¹ ([Psalm of Solomon]) If Jehovah does not build the house, it is vain for the builders to work on it. If Jehovah does not protect a city, it is vain for the guard to stay alert.

²⁵ The liberal person will prosper. He who waters will be watered.

¹⁰ »As the rain and the snow come down from the sky, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, ¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

¹⁸ When they heard this they objected no more and praised God, saying: »God has granted the people of the nations repentance to life.«

²⁷ The congregation gathered and reported all God had done with them how he had opened the door of faith to the nations.

¹⁴ A woman named Lydia who was a seller of purple came from Thyatira. She worshipped God because God opened her heart to listen to the things spoken by Paul.

⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. ⁵ Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia. He witnessed to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶ When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: »Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.« ⁷ He left the synagogue and went next door to the house of a man named Titus Justus, one who worshiped God. ⁸ Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord and so did his household. Many of the Corinthians who heard and believed were baptized. ⁹ The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision: »Do not be afraid, but speak. Do not keep silent! ¹⁰ »I am with you and no man will harm you. I have many people in this city.« ¹¹ He lived there a year and six months teaching the word of God to them.

²⁴ A Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was an Alexandrian who had a comprehensive knowledge of the scriptures and spoke eloquently.

²⁶ He spoke boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him home and explained God’s word more accurately. ²⁷ When he decided to travel to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him. They wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he arrived he was a great help to those who by grace believed.

¹ While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country to Ephesus, and found some disciples.

¹⁹ After Paul greeted them he reported in detail what God had done among the nations through his ministry.

³⁰ It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

¹⁸ I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me. I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed.

⁹ For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.

¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. ¹⁵ Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

¹ Brothers, I declared the good news to you. You have received it and should continue strong in it. ² You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain. ³ First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. ⁴ He was buried, and he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. ⁵ He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles. ⁶ More than five hundred brothers saw him at the same time after that. Most of them remain to this day, but some have fallen asleep [in death]. ⁷ Then he was seen by James, and then by all the apostles. ⁸ And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth. ⁹ I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God. ¹⁰ By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me. ¹¹ Therefore whether they preached or I preached, you believed.

² You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men. ³ It is known that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh that are of the heart. ⁴ We have such confidence through Christ toward God. ⁵ We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

⁷ Does a soldier serve at his own expense? Does the one who plants a vineyard not eat of the fruit it produces? Who shepherds a flock and does not eat some of the milk from the flock? ⁸ I say this from a human point of view. Does the law say the same thing? ⁹ It is written in the Law of Moses: You should not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads (threshes) out the grain. Does God care only about oxen? ¹⁰ Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope. ¹¹ If we sow spiritual seed in you, is it too much if we reap material things?

¹⁴ For we are not overstretching ourselves though we did not reach to you. We reached out to you with the good news of Christ. ¹⁵ We did not boast beyond our assignment in other men's labors. Having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be made great among you according to our territory for further abundance.

⁵ We preached the good news to you, not in words only but with power from Holy Spirit and with conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you. It was for your own good.