Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Corinthians 3:9

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Corinthians 3:9 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Corinthians 3:9. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Paul, we are workers helping God, like gardeners growing plants, and we are also like a building that belongs to God. This means we work with God to make good things happen, and we are special to Him.

1 Corinthians 3:9: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. [husbandry: or, tillage]

Contradiction with John 15:5

This verse states that apart from Christ, we can do nothing, suggesting more dependence on God rather than being laborers with Him.

John 15:5: I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. [without me: or, severed from me]

Contradiction with Isaiah 64:6

It indicates that our righteous acts are like filthy rags, contradicting the concept of being fellow laborers with God in righteousness.

Isaiah 64:6: But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Contradiction with Romans 9:16

Emphasizes dependence on God's mercy, not on human labor or effort, contrasting with the idea of co-laboring with God.

Romans 9:16: So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 3:5

Suggests that our sufficiency is from God, challenging the notion of working alongside God as independent laborers.

2 Corinthians 3:5: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
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