1 Corinthians 4
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Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

account.

1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, …

2 Corinthians 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I …

the ministers.

1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …

1 Corinthians 9:16-18 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity …

Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler …

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves …

2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in …

2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors …

Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God …

1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …

and stewards.

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …

Luke 16:1-3 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, …

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

1 Peter 4:10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one …

mysteries.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, …

Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …

Mark 4:11 And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the …

Luke 8:10 And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom …

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, …

Ephesians 1:9 Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his …

Ephesians 3:3-9 How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote …

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …

Colossians 1:26,27 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, …

Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, …

Colossians 4:3 With praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, …

1 Timothy 3:9,16 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience…

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
But 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.
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

For. [Ouden gar emauto sunoida] 'For I am not conscious to myself of any guilt' or neglect of duty. Wetstien has shown, from the classics, that this is the proper signification of [suneidein.]

I know.

Job 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall …

Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…

John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …

1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows …

yet.

Job 9:2,3,20 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God…

Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, …

Job 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that …

Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.

Psalm 130:3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight …

Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …

Romans 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory; …

but.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …

Psalm 26:12 My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge …

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every …

Therefore 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.

judge.

Matthew 7:1,2 Judge not, that you be not judged…

Luke 6:37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall …

Romans 2:1,16 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: …

Romans 14:4,10-13 Who are you that judge another man's servant? to his own master he …

James 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his …

until.

1 Corinthians 1:7 So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our …

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show …

1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward …

Matthew 24:30,46 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then …

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …

James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, …

2 Peter 3:4,12 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers …

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, …

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they …

who.

1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare …

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, …

Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …

Luke 12:1-3 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable …

Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ …

2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books …

praise.

Matthew 25:21,23 His lord said to him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you …

John 5:44 How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek …

Romans 2:7,29 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every …

2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold …

1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown …

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

these.

1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you said, I am of Paul; and I of …

1 Corinthians 3:4-7 For while one said, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are …

2 Corinthians 10:7,12,15 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust …

2 Corinthians 11:4,12-15 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, …

for.

1 Corinthians 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might …

2 Corinthians 12:19 Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before …

1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and …

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may …

that ye.

Job 11:11,12 For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it…

Psalm 8:4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that …

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Isaiah 2:22 Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein …

Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes …

Matthew 23:8-10 But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; …

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among …

2 Corinthians 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I …

be puffed.

1 Corinthians 4:18,19 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you…

1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

1 Corinthians 5:2,6 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that …

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have …

1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs …

Numbers 11:28,29 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young …

John 3:26,27 And they came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with you …

Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and …

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

who.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit…

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed …

Romans 9:16-18 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of …

Ephesians 3:3-5 How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote …

2 Thessalonians 2:12-14 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had …

1 Timothy 1:12-15 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he …

Titus 3:3-7 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …

maketh thee to differ. Gr. distinguisheth thee. and what.

1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …

1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has …

1 Chronicles 29:11-16 Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and …

2 Chronicles 1:7-12 In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what …

Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Matthew 25:14,15 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, …

Luke 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and …

John 1:16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.

John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given …

Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to …

Romans 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given …

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …

1 Peter 4:10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one …

why.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens …

2 Chronicles 32:23-29 And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to …

Ezekiel 28:2-5 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because …

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, …

Daniel 4:30-32 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …

Daniel 5:18,23 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, …

Acts 12:22,23 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and …

Now 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.

ye are full.

1 Corinthians 1:5 That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and …

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to …

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens …

Proverbs 13:7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that …

Proverbs 25:14 Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Luke 1:51-53 He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in …

Luke 6:25 Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh …

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among …

Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but …

Galatians 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he …

Revelation 3:17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need …

without.

1 Corinthians 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Acts 20:29,30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter …

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: …

Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …

and I.

Numbers 11:29 And Moses said to him, Envy you for my sake? would God that all the …

Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that …

2 Corinthians 11:1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed …

ye did.

Psalm 122:5-9 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David…

Jeremiah 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform …

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also …

1 Thessalonians 2:19,20 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even …

1 Thessalonians 3:6-9 But now when Timotheus came from you to us, and brought us good tidings …

2 Timothy 2:11,12 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also …

Revelation 5:10 And have made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

For 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.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

are fools.

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of …

1 Corinthians 1:18-20,26-28 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; …

1 Corinthians 2:3,14 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling…

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise …

2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to …

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; …

Acts 17:18,32 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, …

Acts 26:24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, …

for.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and …

Matthew 10:22-25 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: …

Luke 6:22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate …

Acts 9:16 For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

1 Peter 4:14 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the …

are wise.

1 Corinthians 4:8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without …

1 Corinthians 10:14,15 Why, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry…

Jeremiah 8:8,9 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? …

we are weak.

1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily …

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength …

2 Corinthians 13:3,4,9 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward …

but ye.

1 Corinthians 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for till now you were …

1 Corinthians 10:12 Why let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

but we.

Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding …

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted …

Luke 10:16 He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; …

Luke 18:9 And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves …

1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also …

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
For 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.

I sent.

1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: …

Acts 19:21,22 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when …

Philippians 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly to you, that …

1 Thessalonians 3:2,3 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow …

who is.

1 Corinthians 4:15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have …

1 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from …

2 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from …

faithful.

1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give …

Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Matthew 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler …

Matthew 25:21,23 His lord said to him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you …

Ephesians 6:21 But that you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a …

Colossians 1:7 As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is …

Colossians 4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. …

2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the …

Revelation 2:10,13 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil …

my ways.

1 Corinthians 7:17 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every …

1 Corinthians 11:2,16 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and …

1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order …

2 Timothy 3:10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, …

in.

1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches …

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
But 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.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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