1 Corinthians 3:5 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁵ What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

¹⁵ He gave three thousand pounds to one, twelve hundred to another, and six hundred to a third, in proportion to the ability of each. Then he set out on his travels.

² Just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the Message.

²⁷ John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.

¹⁴ But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him? ¹⁵ And how are men to proclaim him unless they are sent as his messengers? As Scripture says--'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'

³ In fulfillment of the charge with which I have been entrusted, I bid every one of you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think till he learns to think soberly--in accordance with the measure of faith that God has allotted to each. ⁴ For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function, ⁵ So we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts. ⁶ Since our gifts differ in accordance with the particular charge entrusted to us, if our gift is to preach, let our preaching correspond to our faith;

⁷ Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.

¹⁰ In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master-builder; but another man is now building upon it. Let every one take care how he builds;

¹ Let men look upon us as Christ's servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God. ² Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.

¹⁷ If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.

⁴ Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same; ⁵ Ways of serving differ, yet the Master is the same; ⁶ Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same. ⁷ To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good. ⁸ To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit; ⁹ To another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers; ¹⁰ To another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues'; to another the power to interpret 'tongues.' ¹¹ All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.

²⁸ In the Church God has appointed, first, Apostles, secondly Preachers, thirdly Teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

³ All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on 'tablets of stone,' but on 'tablets of human hearts.'

⁶ Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

⁵ (For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.)

⁷ This treasure we have in these earthen vessels, that its all- prevailing power may be seen to come from God, and not to be our own.

¹ Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

⁴ No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,

²³ Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

⁷ Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--

²⁵ Of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the Message of God in all its fulness--

¹⁰ Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God.