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God’s Fellow Workers

1 Corinthians 3:9

In 9 translations

BSB
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
KJV
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
WEB
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
ASV
For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.
LSV
for we are fellow-workmen of God; you are God’s tillage, God’s building.
YLT
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
DBY
For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.ElohimElohimElohim
DRC
For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
GNV
For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί· θεοῦ γεώργιον, θεοῦ οἰκοδομή ἐστε.
RP2018
Θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί· θεοῦ γεώργιον, θεοῦ οἰκοδομή ἐστε.
TR-Boyd
Θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί· Θεοῦ γεώργιον, Θεοῦ οἰκοδομή ἐστε.
SCR1894
θεου γαρ εσμεν συνεργοι θεου γεωργιον θεου οικοδομη εστε

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Ephesians 2:20–22built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being…
  • 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
  • Mark 16:20And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
  • Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  • Matthew 9:37Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
  • Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
  • John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. You are already…
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
  • John 4:35–38Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal…
  • Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • Acts 4:11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
  • 3 John 1:8Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
  • 1 Timothy 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

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