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4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of
Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
faithful.
4:3 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.
4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby
justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
4:5 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.
4:6 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.
4:7 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]?
4:8 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.
4:9 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.
4:10 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.
4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst,
and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
dwellingplace;
4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled,
we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of
the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this
day.
4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved
sons I warn [you].
4:15 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.
4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
4:17 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.
4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to
you.
4:19 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.
4:20 For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.
4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in
love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?