God's fellow-workers (θεου συνεργο). This old word (co-workers of God) has a new dignity here. God is the major partner in the ent…

For we are labourers together with God. θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί. We are God's co-workers. A similar expression occurs in [Referen…

Three times in this verse the Apostle repeats the name of God with emphasis, to explain and to impress the assertion of the previous verse: that pe…

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; b…

Paul bluntly states, “I planted the seed,” and quickly adds, “Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.” In vv.7–9 he draws some conclusions from h…

For we are fellow-laborers with God. This is the best argument. It is the Lord’s work in which we are employed, and it is to Him that we h…

For we are labourers together with God
The ministers of the Gospel are labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and not loi…

The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended were only instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of God.