1 Corinthians 3:9 (WEB)
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
Catechism · 2
The Creator
“They then fully become "God's fellow workers" and co-workers for his kingdom.” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 3:9; I Th 3:2; Col 4:11.
The Church in God's Plan
“It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 3:9; Mt 21:42 and parallels; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7; PS 118:22; 1 Cor 3:11; 1 Tim 3:15; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:3; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21:1-2.
Fathers and councils · 13
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.1Book IV
“…out and pulling down the hindrances which have just been mentioned, but must, in room of what has been rooted out, plant the plants of “God’s husbandry;” and in place of what has been pulled down, rear up the building of God, and the temple of His glory,—we must for that reason pray also to the Lord, who…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 9.
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Jerome
“1 Cor. iii. 6–10.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“But the new law’s wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of “glaives” and “lances,” and to remodel the pristine execution of “war” upon the rivals and foes of the law into the pacific actions of “ploughing” and “tilling” the land.” — editor's note: Especially spiritually. Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 6–9; ix. 9, 10, and similar passages.
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Ambrose of Milan
““For we are labourers together with God,” as the Apostle said; “we are God’s husbandry, God’s building.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The Apostle saith, “God’s husbandry ye are, God’s building ye are.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9.
Read the whole comment“That Servant of God, that Builder, who said, “Ye are God’s building.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9–11.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore in that he saith, “If any will not work, neither let him eat;” works spiritual, say they, are what we must understand: of which he saith in another place, “To each one according as the Lord hath given: I have planted, Apollos hath watered; but God gave the increase.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 5–10
Read the whole comment“And the like process is going on throughout the whole circle of lands, in virtue of the peace allowed by Christian kings, even as the same apostle thus expresses himself: ‘Ye are God’s husbandry; ye are God’s building.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9; cf. Jer. xxv. 12, xxix. 10
Read the whole comment“And the words most appropriately are, not, “Go ye down and confound,” but, “Let us confound their speech;” showing that He so works by His servants, that they are themselves also fellow-laborers with God, as the apostle says, “For we are fellow-laborers with God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9.
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Basil the Great
“And Paul calls himself a “labourer together with God” in the dispensation of the Gospel; will they bring an indictment for impiety against us, if we apply the term “fellow-labourer” to the Holy Spirit, through whom in every creature under heaven the Gospel bringeth forth fruit?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Of this healing we, who are set over others, are the ministers and fellow-labourers; for whom it is a great thing to recognise and heal their own passions and sicknesses: or rather, not really a great thing, only the viciousness of most of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9; iv. 1; 2 Cor. vi. 1.
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Leo the Great
“For although we be “God’s husbandry and God’s building,” and “neither is he that planteth anything, nor he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase,” yet in all things He requires our ministry and service, and wishes us to be the stewards of His gifts, that he who bears God’s image may do God’s will.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 9 and 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Ye are God’s building,” according to the apostle.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 8, 9.
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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.1.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Catechism §307.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.1.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.1.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.