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This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Servants of Christ
Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.
Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.