1st Corinthians Chapter 3 verse 6 Holy Bible
I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
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*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.
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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - I planted. St. Paul everywhere recognized that his gift lay pre eminently in the ability to found Churches (comp. Acts 18:1-11; 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Corinthians 9:1; 1 Corinthians 15:1). Apollos watered. If, as is now generally believed, Apollos wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, we see how striking was his power of strengthening the faith of wavering Churches. Eloquence and a deep insight into the meaning of Scripture, enriched by Alexandrian culture, seem to have been his special endowments (Acts 18:24, 27). The reference of the word "watered" to baptism by Augustine (Ep. 48) is one of the numberless instances of Scripture distorted by ecclesiasticism. God gave the increase (comp. 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 3:5). The thought of every true teacher always is, "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give the praise" (Psalm 115:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) I have planted, Apollos watered.--By an image borrowed from the processes of agriculture the Apostle explains the relation in which his teaching stood to that of Apollos--and how all the results were from God. This indication of St. Paul having been the founder, and Apollos the subsequent instructor, of the Corinthian Church, is in complete harmony with what we read of the early history of that Church in Acts 18:27; Acts 19:1. After St. Paul had been at Corinth (Acts 18:1), Apollos, who had been taught by Aquila and Priscilla at Ephesus, came there and "helped them much which had already believed."
