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5 Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us - servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment.
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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow.
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I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
7 It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow.
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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
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