Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 3:9

9 For we are labourers together with God, ye are Gods husbandry , ye are Gods building .

Though compared with God we are nothing, yet our sta [illegible: 1 letter]ion is no mean station, God works as the principal efficient Cause, we work with God as Gods instruments; God worketh one way by his secret influence upon the heart, we another way, by publication of the Gospel in peoples ears, but the scope and end of the work is the same. The Lord is said to work with his Ministers, Mark 16.20. and they are here said to work with him. Hence he proveth what he had before said, that they should be rewarded, God will not suffer those, who work with him, to be without their reward: as also that they were One, for they are all workers together with God.

Yet do not think your selves our husbandry, for you are Gods husbandry: thus Gods people, Isa. 61.3. are called the planting of the Lord.

Gods building: thus the Church is called the house of God, 1 Tim. 3.15. Still the Apostle minds them, that they were Gods, not their Ministers; it was God to whom they were beholden for their conversion, for their edification, &c.

Marginal references: 2 Cor. 6.1.; Or, tillage.; Eph. 2.20. Heb. 3.3, 4. 1 Pet. 2.5.