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God's Field, God's Building
Commentators highlight that Paul uses two powerful metaphors for the church: a cultivated field ('God's husbandry') and a construction project ('God's building'). Both images emphasize that the church is not a human institution but a divine one. God is the owner, the farmer, and the master architect. All spiritual growth and the very existence of the church are credited to Him, not to any human leader.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
18th Century
Theologian
For we are labourers together with God. θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί. We are God's co-workers. A similar expression occurs in [Referen…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
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…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
19th Century
Bishop
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…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 3:5–9
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
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…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 3:9
17th Century
Pastor
For we are labourers together with God
The ministers of the Gospel are labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and not loi…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 3:5–9
17th Century
Minister
The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended were only instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of God.