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Watering, Working, Warning
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
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For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
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each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
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If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
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If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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A Pattern of Self-Denial
Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
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Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?
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And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
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to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
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But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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And if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
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that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.