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5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but aministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?  
6 aI planted, bApollos watered, cbut God gave the increase.  
7 So then aneither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.  
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, aand each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.  
9 For awe are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are bGod’s building.  
10 aAccording to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid bthe foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.  
11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than athat which is laid, bwhich is Jesus Christ.  
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1 Corinthians 3:7

Anything - This is to he taken comparatively. They are nothing in comparison with God! Their agency is of no importance compared with his: see the note at I Corinthians 1:28. It does not mean that their agency ought not to be performed; that it is not important, and indispensable in its place; but that the honor is due to God - Their agency is indispensable. God could make seed or a tree grow if they were not planted in the earth. But He does not do it. The agency of the farmer is indispensable in the ordinary operations of His providence. If he does not plant, God will not make the grain or the tree grow. God blesses his labors; he does not work a miracle. God attends effort with success; God does not interfere in a miraculous manner to accommodate the indolence of people. So in the matter of salvation. The efforts of ministers would be of no avail without God. They could do nothing in the salvation of the soul unless God would give the increase. But their labors are as indispensable and as necessary, as are those of the farmer in the production of a harvest. And as every farmer could say, "my labors are nothing without God, who alone can give the increase," so it is with every minister of the gospel.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Corinthians 3:7:

Micah 5:7
Matthew 15:10-14
1 Corinthians 3:23
1 Corinthians 4:6
2 Corinthians 5:18

 

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