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

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

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For though you might have countless instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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?

Who ever serves military duty at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

For it is written in the Law of Moses, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. Is it oxen God is concerned about?

If we have sown spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.

After that He was seen by Jacob, then by each of the apostles.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believe.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.

Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing and believing, were immersed.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city.

For we are not overextending ourselves (as though not extending to you), for we also came as far as to you with the gospel of Christ;

not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men's labors, but having hope, that as your faith is growing, according to our rule, being greatly enlarged to overflowing,

The blessed soul will be made fat; he who waters shall also be watered himself.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

And when he was minded to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, encouraging the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples

But out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made for us from God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than every one of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Surely the sons of men are a vapor; men are a lie; if they were to climb up into the scales, they are altogether lighter than vapor.

God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.

Those who are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God.

to declare that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

i1 [A Song of Ascents for Solomon.] i0 par Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

so shall My Word be, which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall succeed in that for which I have sent it.

For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

When they heard these things they kept silent; and they glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life.

And when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

And a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who revered God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.

And when he had greeted them, he related one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

For I will not dare to speak of anything which Christ has not accomplished through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles in word and deed;

You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

And we have such confidence through Christ toward God.

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know of what sort we were among you for your sake.