The Role of God’s Servants

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. ⁶ I planted,^(A) Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. ⁷ So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one,^[a] and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s coworkers.^[b] You are God’s field, God’s building.^(B)

¹⁰ According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder,^[c] and another builds on it. But each one is to be careful how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no one can lay any foundation^(C) other than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.