you are God's garden

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1 Corinthians 3:5-10
Christians are co-laborers

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the
Lord gave unto every man?

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
gave the increase.

So then neither is he that planteth any thing,
neither he that watereth; but God that giveth
the increase.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth
are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labor.

For we are laborers together with God: ye
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

According to the grace of God which is given
unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid
the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth
thereupon.

cross references

verse 5

2 Corinthians 3:3
ministers in the New Testament

For as much as ye are manifestly declared to
be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, writ-
ten not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living
God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables
of the heart.

verse 6

2 Corinthians 10:14
Paul speaks of his spiritual authority

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our mea-
sure, as though we reached not unto you: for
we are come as far as to you also in preaching
the gospel of Christ.

verse 7

Galatians 6:3
applications of new principles

For if a man think himself to be something, when
he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

verse 8

Psalm 62:12
God is my rock and my salvation

And unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou
renderest to every man according to his work.

Romans 2:6
to judge others is to condemn self

Who will render to every man according to his
deeds:

verse 9

Acts 15:4
the council at Jerusalem

And when they were come to Jerusalem, they
were received of the church, and of the apostles,
and elders, and they declared all things that God
had done with them.

2 Corinthians 6:1
Paul's summary of the ministry

We, then, as workers together with him, beseech
you also that ye receive not the grace of God in
vain.

Ephesians 2:20
grace and faith

And are built upon the foundation of the apost-
les and prophets of Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone of God;

Colossions 2:7
warning against false teaching

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in
faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.

Hebrews 3:3,4
Christ superior to Moses

For this man was counted worthy of more glory
than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath build-
ed the house hath more honor than the house.

For every house is builded up by some man;
but he that built all things is God.

verse 10

Romans 1:5
greeting

By whom we have received grace and apostle-
ship, for obedience to the faith among all na-
tions, for his name:

Romans 4:15
the promise realized through faith

Because the law worketh wrath: for where
no law is, there is no transgression.



to whomsoever will
may the Holy Spirit speak