1 Corinthians 4 — DBY
4Verse 1Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of [the] mysteries of°God.Verse 2Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful.Verse 3But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.Verse 4For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.Verse 5So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from°God.Verse 6Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the [lesson of] not [letting your thoughts go] above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for [such a] one against another.Verse 7For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?Verse 8Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.Verse 9For I think that°God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.Verse 10We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.Verse 11To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,Verse 12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];Verse 13insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.Verse 14Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].Verse 15For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.Verse 16I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.Verse 17For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.Verse 18But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;Verse 19but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.Verse 20For the kingdom of°God [is] not in word, but in power.Verse 21What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?