King James Version · full chapter
1 Corinthians 4
21 verses · King James Version
- 1Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:1
- 2Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:2
- 3But 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:3
- 4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:4
- 5Therefore 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:5
- 6And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:6
- 7For who maketh thee to differ and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not receivedCompare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:7
- 8Now 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:8
- 9For 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:9
- 10We fools for Christ’s sake, but ye wise in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye honourable, but we despised.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:10
- 11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:11
- 12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:12
- 13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things unto this day.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:13
- 14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warnCompare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:14
- 15For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:15
- 16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:16
- 17For 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:17
- 18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:18
- 19But 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:19
- 20For the kingdom of God not in word, but in power.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:20
- 21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 4:21