1 Corinthians 3:9 Cross References - WPNT

⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.

³⁷ Then He says to His disciples: “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workers are few.

³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables saying: “Listen, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ Others fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; so they sprouted quickly because they had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. ⁷ And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered them. ⁸ But others fell on the good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road. ²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy, ²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended. ²² But the seed sown among the thorns—this is he who hears the word, but the care of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless. ²³ Now the seed sown on the good ground—this is he who hears the word and understands, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” ²⁴ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; ²⁵ but while the people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. ²⁶ But when the stalk sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared. ²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy did it’. The servants said to him, ‘So do you want us to go and gather them up?’ ²⁹ But he said: ‘No, lest gathering up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn”’.”

³⁶ Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples approached Him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field”. ³⁷ So He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of the Man. ³⁸ The field is the world; as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, while the tares are the sons of the malignant one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness; ⁴² and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁸ And I further say to you that you are a stone, but on this bedrock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not withstand her.

¹ “For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² And agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour [9 a.m.] he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴ And he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard and I will give you whatever is right.’ So off they went. ⁵ He went out again about the sixth hour, and the ninth, and did the same. ⁶ Now about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’ ⁷ They say to him, ‘Because no one hired us’. He says to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right’. ⁸ So when evening had come the owner of the vineyard says to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wage, beginning at the last to the first’. ⁹ The eleventh hour ones came and each received a denarius. ¹⁰ So when the first ones came they supposed that they would receive more; yet each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹ When they received it they began grumbling against the landowner ¹² saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden and the heat of the day!’ ¹³ But in answer he said to one of them: ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours and go. I wish to give to this last one just as to you.

²³ So He came into the temple, and as He was teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people approached Him saying, “By what kind of authority are you doing these things ?” and “Who gave you this authority?” ²⁴ But in answer Jesus said to them: “I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things : ²⁵ The baptism of John—where was it from; from heaven or from men?” So they reasoned among themselves saying: “If we say, ‘From heaven’, He will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ ²⁶ But if we say, ‘From men’, we fear the crowd, for all consider John as a prophet.” ²⁷ So in answer to Jesus they said, “We do not know”. So He said to them: “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things . ²⁸ “But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and going to the first he said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard’. ²⁹ But in answer he said, ‘I don’t want to’ (but later he changed his mind and went). ³⁰ And going to the other he said likewise. And in answer he said, ‘I go, Sir’; yet he did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say to Him, “The first”. Jesus says to them: “Assuredly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you do. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, yet when you saw it you did not afterward repent, so as to believe him. ³³ “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey. ³⁴ When vintage-time drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits. ³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’. ³⁸ But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’ ³⁹ And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” ⁴¹ They say to Him: “He will miserably destroy those miserable men! And he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.” ⁴² Jesus says to them: “Did you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone which the builders rejected, this one became the cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it. ⁴⁴ Also, whoever falls upon this stone will be broken to pieces; but upon whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”

²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground ²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the earth produces fruit: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full grain in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs. Amen.

³⁵ Don’t you say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes’? Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already! ³⁶ Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this: ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

¹ “I am the vine, the true one, and my Father is the vinedresser. ² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up. ⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me .

¹¹ This is ‘the stone which was despised by you, the builders, which has become the chief cornerstone’.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow.

¹⁶ Do you (pl) not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

¹ So working together we really urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain,

¹⁶ Further, what agreement can a temple of God have with idols? Because you are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them; I will be their God and they will by my people.”

¹⁰ You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone; ²¹ in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you also are being built together to become a habitation of God by the Spirit.

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

¹⁵ in case I am delayed, so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, pillar and foundation of the truth.

³ For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself ⁴ —every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God—

⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, of the Hope firm to the end.

⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such, so that we may work together for the Truth.