² and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ^(A)

“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”^(B)

The Role of God’s Servants

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

² and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.^(A)