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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>1 Corinthians 4 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/1_corinthians/4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/combine/1_corinthians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > 1 Corinthians 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/3.htm" title="1 Corinthians 3">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 4 <a href="../1_corinthians/5.htm" title="1 Corinthians 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Servants of Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.</p> <p class="hdg">Do Not Be Proud</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have reigned without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonour. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul Warns his Spiritual Children</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For though ye should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them which are puffed up, but the power. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_corinthians/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_corinthians/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/1_corinthians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>