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3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and1 behaving like mere men?  
4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Watering, Working, Warning

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.  
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1 Corinthians 3:5

What then? (ti oun). He does not say tiv (who), but ti (what), neuter singular interrogative pronoun.

Ministers (diakonoi). Not leaders of parties or sects, but merely servants through whom ye believed. The etymology of the word Thayer gives as dia and koniv "raising dust by hastening." In the Gospels it is the servant (Matthew 20:26) or waiter (John 2:5). Paul so describes himself as a minister (Colossians 1:23, Colossians 1:25). The technical sense of deacon comes later (Philippians 1:1; I Timothy 3:8, I Timothy 3:12).

As the Lord gave to him (wv o Kuriov edwken). Hence no minister of the Lord like Apollos and Paul has any basis for pride or conceit nor should be made the occasion for faction and strife. This idea Paul enlarges upon through chapters 3 and 4 and it is made plain in chapter 1Co. 12.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 3:5:

Matthew 20:26
Acts 18:28
Romans 12:3
1 Corinthians 3:4
1 Corinthians 3:7
1 Corinthians 4:1
Philippians 1:1
1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Timothy 1:12

 

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