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1 Corinthians 4 NASB 1977
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And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and <i>I</i> would indeed that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, <i>even</i> until now. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet <i>you would</i> not <i>have</i> many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I exhort you therefore, be imitators of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What do you desire? 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