1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
For we are co-workers in God's service; you are God's field, God's building — 'co-workers' (synergoi) with God: a stunning status for humans, yet true. The Corinthians are not Paul's or Apollos's field/building to control but 'God's field, God's building.' The double metaphor shifts from agriculture to architecture, preparing for the foundation/building language that follows.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow-workers: “you are God's husbandry, God's building.” Do you see how to them also he has assigned no small work, having before laid it down that the whole is of God? For since he is always persuading them to obey those that have the rule over them, on this account he abstains from making very light of their teachers. “You are God's husbandry.” For because he had said, “I planted,” he kept to the metaphor. Now if you be God's husbandry, it is right…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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