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Corinthians
4
Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ,
and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a
man be found faithful.
But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you,
or by man's day; but neither do I judge my own self.
For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am
I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the
Lord.
Therefore judge not 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 from
God.
But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred
to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us
you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the
other for another, above that which is written.
For who distinguisheth thee ? Or what hast thou that
thou hast not received ? And if thou hast received,
why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it
?
You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign
without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we
also might reign with you.
For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the
last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made
a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in
Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable,
but we without honour.
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled,
and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.
We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the
refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until
now.
I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish
you as my dearest children.
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel,
I have begotten you.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I
also am of Christ.
For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my
dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you
in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I
teach every where in every church.
As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and
will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up,
but the power.
For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.
What will you ? shall I come to you with a rod; or in
charity, and in the spirit of meekness ?
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