| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God's mysteries. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2In this regard, it is expected of managers that each one of them be found faithful. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3It is of little importance to me that I should be evaluated by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. The One who evaluates me is the Lord. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Therefore don't judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: "Nothing beyond what is written." The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn't receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn't received it? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us--and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world's garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I'm not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can't have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now some are inflated with pride, as though I were not coming to you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk but the power of those who are inflated with pride. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? |
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