1 Corinthians 3:5

WEB

⁵Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

KJV

⁵Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

BSB

⁵What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

FBV

⁵Who is Apollos, anyway? And who is Paul? We're just servants through whom you believed. Each of us does the work God gave us to do.

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Extra References

2 Corinthians 6:4

⁴but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 6:1

¹Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

1 Peter 4:10

¹⁰As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

2 Corinthians 3:6

⁶who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Corinthians 3:10

¹⁰According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

2 Corinthians 4:5

⁵For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

2 Corinthians 11:23

²³Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 4:7

⁷But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 3:3

³being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Luke 1:2

²even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,