So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Let a man so consider us, as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now furthermore what is required among the stewards, is that one be found faithful.

just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered [them] to us,

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from a preacher?

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the extraordinary character of the power may be of God and not of us;

And working together [with Him], we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] even more: in labors far more, in beatings immeasurably, in imprisonments far more, in deaths often.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a commission.

Now there are varieties of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are varieties of activities, but the same God works all in all.

For to one is given a word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, and to another [different] kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.

And to the one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.

John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself too highly, beyond what you should think, but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one a measure of faith.

so we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.