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Paul uses planting and watering to describe different roles of gospel workers (1 Corinthians 3:5–6). His main point is that “only God…gives the growth,” so loyalty and credit should not center on human leaders (1 Corinthians 3:7).
5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.