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1 Corinthians 4

1 Corinthians 4:1WEB

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.

1 Corinthians 4:2WEB

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

1 Corinthians 4:3WEB

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

1 Corinthians 4:4WEB

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:5WEB

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

1 Corinthians 4:6WEB

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

1 Corinthians 4:7WEB

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

1 Corinthians 4:8WEB

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

1 Corinthians 4:9WEB

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

1 Corinthians 4:10WEB

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

1 Corinthians 4:11WEB

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

1 Corinthians 4:12WEB

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

1 Corinthians 4:13WEB

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

1 Corinthians 4:14WEB

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 4:15WEB

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

1 Corinthians 4:16WEB

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

1 Corinthians 4:17WEB

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

1 Corinthians 4:18WEB

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19WEB

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

1 Corinthians 4:20WEB

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

1 Corinthians 4:21WEB

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.