1 Corinthians 3:5 Cross References - Riverside

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to faith, as the Lord granted to each of us.

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his particular ability. Then he went abroad.

² just as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and who became bearers of the message handed them down to us;

²⁷ John answered, "A man can assume nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without some one to proclaim him? ¹⁵ How shall they proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"

³ Through the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought, but to think so as to become wise, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. ⁴ For as in one body we have many members and the members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. ⁶ Having gifts differing according to the grace given to us, if it is prophecy, let us use it according to the proportion of our faith;

⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God granted to me, as a wise master-builder I have laid a foundation and another is building on it. But let each be careful how he builds on it.

¹ LET a man view us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. ² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful.

¹⁷ If I do it voluntarily I have a reward, but if reluctantly, I have been charged with a responsibility.

⁴ There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are varieties of products, but the same God who produces all things in all. ⁷ To each one is given some manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable. ⁸ To one are given, through the Spirit, words of wisdom, to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another works of power, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another varieties of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ One and the same Spirit produces all of these gifts, distributing to each one individually as he will.

²⁸ God placed some in the church first as apostles, secondly as prophets, thirdly as teachers, then miracle-workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, speakers of different kinds of tongues.

³ evidently a letter of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.

⁶ who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen jars, that the surpassing power may be God's and not ours —

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

⁴ but in everything we commend ourselves as God's servants in great patience, in distresses, in necessities, in hardships,

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often.

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the free grace of God which was given me by the inworking of his power.

²⁵ I became a servant of the church according to the commission from God given to me for you, to deliver fully God's message,

¹⁰ Let each, as he has received a spiritual gift, serve the others in that way, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.