“So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow — the negation is total: 'is anything' (ti). Not humility but ontological truth: human labor in the kingdom counts as nothing apart from God's empowering. This is not denigration but cosmic realism. The Corinthians, measuring themselves by human achievement, have inverted the hierarchy.
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