1 Corinthians 3:7
Good News Translation
The one who plants and the one who waters really do not matter. It is God who matters, because he makes the plant grow.

New Revised Standard Version
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Contemporary English Version
What matters isn't those who planted or watered, but God who made the plants grow.

New American Bible
Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

Isaiah 40:17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 41:29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

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John 15:5 I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Galatians 6:3 For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Context
God's Fellow Workers
6I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. 7Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase. 8Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.…
Cross References
Psalm 90:17
And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:6
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