1 Corinthians 4

1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.Cross-references: Matt 13:11 · Matt 24:45 · Mark 4:11 · Luke 8:10 · Luke 12:42 · Luke 16:1 · +20 more

2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.Cross-references: Num 12:7 · Prov 13:17 · Matt 25:21 · Matt 25:23 · Luke 12:42 · Luke 16:10 · +7 more

3But 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · John 7:24 · 1Cor 2:15 · 1Cor 3:13

4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.Cross-references: Job 9:2 · Job 9:20 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · Job 27:6 · Job 40:4 · +16 more

5Therefore 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.Cross-references: Eccl 11:9 · Eccl 12:14 · Mal 3:18 · Matt 7:1 · Matt 24:30 · Matt 24:46 · +31 more

6Now 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.Cross-references: Num 11:28 · Job 11:11 · Ps 8:4 · Ps 146:3 · Isa 2:22 · Jer 17:5 · +26 more

7For 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?Cross-references: 1Chr 29:11 · 2Chr 1:7 · 2Chr 32:23 · Prov 2:6 · Ezek 28:2 · Ezek 29:3 · +23 more

8You 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!Cross-references: Num 11:29 · Ps 122:5 · Prov 13:7 · Prov 25:14 · Isa 5:21 · Jer 28:6 · +20 more

9For 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.Cross-references: Ps 44:22 · Acts 19:29 · Acts 19:31 · Rom 8:36 · 1Cor 15:30 · 2Cor 1:8 · +11 more

10We 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:11 · Prov 11:12 · Isa 53:3 · Jer 8:8 · Hos 9:7 · Matt 5:11 · +27 more

11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.Cross-references: Job 22:6 · Matt 8:20 · Acts 14:19 · Acts 16:23 · Acts 23:2 · Rom 8:35 · +6 more

12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.Cross-references: Matt 5:11 · Matt 5:44 · Luke 6:28 · Luke 23:34 · John 15:20 · Acts 7:60 · +14 more

13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.Cross-references: Lam 3:45 · Acts 22:22

14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.Cross-references: Ezek 3:21 · Acts 20:31 · 1Cor 4:15 · 1Cor 6:5 · 1Cor 9:15 · 1Cor 15:34 · +9 more

15For 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.Cross-references: Acts 18:4 · Rom 15:20 · 1Cor 3:6 · 1Cor 3:10 · 1Cor 9:1 · 1Cor 9:12 · +11 more

16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.Cross-references: John 10:4 · 1Cor 11:1 · Phil 3:17 · Phil 4:9 · 1Thess 1:6 · 2Thess 3:9 · +2 more

17Because 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.Cross-references: Num 12:7 · Prov 13:17 · Matt 24:45 · Matt 25:21 · Matt 25:23 · Acts 19:21 · +20 more

18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.Cross-references: 1Cor 4:6 · 1Cor 4:21 · 1Cor 5:2

19But 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.Cross-references: Acts 18:21 · Acts 19:21 · Acts 20:2 · Rom 15:32 · 1Cor 2:6 · 1Cor 4:18 · +9 more

20For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.Cross-references: Rom 1:16 · Rom 14:17 · Rom 15:19 · 1Cor 1:24 · 1Cor 2:4 · 2Cor 10:4 · +1 more

21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?Cross-references: 1Cor 5:5 · 2Cor 1:23 · 2Cor 2:1 · 2Cor 2:3 · 2Cor 3:10 · 2Cor 10:1 · +7 more