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The Nature of True Apostleship
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.
The Ministry of Apostles
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.
Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
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.
My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
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.
Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
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?
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign — and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you!
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!
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.
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.
We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!
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.
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,
We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world — right up to this moment.
when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
Paul’s Appeal and Warning
I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.
I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.
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.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.