Watering, Working, Warning

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

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.

If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?

And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

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.

But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

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.

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.

that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.