11 translations · Greek
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
- KJV King James Version
- For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- for we are fellow-workmen of God; you are God’s tillage, God’s building.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- We are workers together with God—and you are God's field, his building.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God’s | G2316 θεός God |
| γάρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| ἐσμεν | esmen | we are | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| συνεργοί | synergoi | fellow workers | G4904 συνεργός co-worker |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God’s | G2316 θεός God |
| γεώργιον | geōrgion | field | G1091 γεώργιον farm field |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God’s | G2316 θεός God |
| οἰκοδομή | oikodomē | building | G3619 οἰκοδομή building |
| ἐστε | este | you are | G1510 εἰμί to be |
Related verses
- 1 Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 2:20–22
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
- 1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- Mark 16:20
They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
- John 4:35–38
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ …
- John 15:1–8
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. …
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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