1 Corinthians 3:9 “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.”

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

World English Bible

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

American Standard Version

For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.

Geneva Bible 1599

For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.

Darby Translation

For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

Young's Literal Translation

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

Bible in Basic English

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

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Cross references

“we”

2 Corinthians 6:1 Mark 16:20 Matthew 9:37 1 Corinthians 3:6 3 John 1:8

2 Corinthians 6:1 · BSB

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

Mark 16:20 · BSB

And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

Matthew 9:37 · BSB

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

1 Corinthians 3:6 · BSB

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

3 John 1:8 · BSB

Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

“ye are God's”

Isaiah 61:11 John 4:35–38 John 15:1–8 Isaiah 61:3 Matthew 21:23–44 Mark 4:26–29

Isaiah 61:11 · BSB

For 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.

John 4:35–38 · BSB

Do 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.

John 15:1–8 · BSB

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

Isaiah 61:3 · BSB

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the L…

Matthew 21:23–44 · BSB

When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

Mark 4:26–29 · BSB

Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

“ye are God's building”

1 Peter 2:5 Ephesians 2:20–22 1 Corinthians 3:16 Ephesians 2:10 1 Corinthians 6:19 Acts 4:11

1 Peter 2:5 · BSB

you 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 2:20–22 · BSB

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

1 Corinthians 3:16 · BSB

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Ephesians 2:10 · BSB

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

1 Corinthians 6:19 · BSB

Do 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;

Acts 4:11 · BSB

This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

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