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1 CORINTHIANS chapter
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1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants,
and stewards of God’s mysteries. 2 Here, moreover, it is required of
stewards, that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small
thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge
my own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified
by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 5 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.
6 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. 7 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? 8 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. 9 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. 10 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. 11 Even to this present hour we hunger,
thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We
toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being
persecuted, we endure. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the
filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. 14 I don’t
write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For
though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in
Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News. 16 I beg you
therefore, be imitators of me. 17 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. 18 Now
some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19 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. 20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but
in power. 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love
and a spirit of gentleness?
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