1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building. The metaphor of the field describes the raw material on which God works; that of the house describes the result of the work. The field represents the individual Christian in his secret power of life and endless growth; the house represents the Church in the unity of plan, in the beauty and strength of its structure. The metaphor of the building lends itself more easily than that of the farm to the apostle's purpose in the subsequent verses, and leads naturally to the highest conception, that of God's temple in ver. 16. (Principal Edwards.) Parallel Verses KJV: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.WEB: For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. |
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