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title: 1 Corinthians 4
slug: kjv-nt/1-corinthians-4
createdAt: 2024-09-11T02:47:11.931Z
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**1 **Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. **2 **Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. **3 **But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. **4 **For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. **5 **Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

**6 **And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and *to* Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think *of men* above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. **7 **For who maketh thee to differ *from another*? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive *it*, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received *it*?

**8 **Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. **9 **For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. **10 **We *are* fools for Christ's sake, but ye *are* wise in Christ; we *are* weak, but ye *are* strong; ye *are* honourable, but we *are* despised. **11 **Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; **12 **And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: **13 **Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, *and are* the offscouring of all things unto this day.

**14 **I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn *you*. **15 **For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet *have ye* not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. **16 **Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. **17 **For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. **18 **Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. **19 **But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. **20 **For the kingdom of God *is* not in word, but in power. **21 **What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and *in* the spirit of meekness?