1 Corinthians 4:8
Good News Translation
Do you already have everything you need? Are you already rich? Have you become kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we could be kings together with you.

New Revised Standard Version
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

Contemporary English Version
Are you already satisfied? Are you now rich? Have you become kings while we are still nobodies? I wish you were kings. Then we could have a share in your kingdom.

New American Bible
You are already satisfied; you have already grown rich; you have become kings without us! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we also might become kings with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

ye are full.

1 Corinthians 1:5 That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and in all knowledge;

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

Proverbs 13:7 One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Luke 1:51-53 He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. . . .

Luke 6:25 Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

Romans 12:3 For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Galatians 6:3 For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

without.

1 Corinthians 4:18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

Acts 20:29,30 I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. . . .

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

and I.

Numbers 11:29 But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!

Acts 26:29 And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

2 Corinthians 11:1 Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me.

ye did.

Psalm 122:5-9 Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David. . . .

Jeremiah 28:6 And Jeremiah the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to this place.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

2 Corinthians 13:9 For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.

1 Thessalonians 2:19,20 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:6-9 But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us as we also to see you: . . .

2 Timothy 2:11,12 A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him. . . .

Revelation 5:10 And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

Context
Fools for Christ
7For 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? 8You 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. 9For 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:1
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.

Revelation 3:17
Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

1 Corinthians 4:7
Top of Page
Top of Page