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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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"><title>1 Corinthians 4 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><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="../topmenuchap/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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Servants of Christ<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Accordingly, let man consider us to be ministers of Christ and attendants of the mysteries of God. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Here and now, it is required of attendants that each one be found to be faithful. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But as for me, it is such a small thing to be judged by you, or by the age of mankind. And neither do I judge myself. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For I have nothing on my conscience. But I am not justified by this. For the Lord is the One who judges me. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And so, do not choose to judge before the time, until the Lord returns. He will illuminate the hidden things of the darkness, and he will make manifest the decisions of hearts. And then each one shall have praise from God.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And so, brothers, I have presented these things in myself and in Apollo, for your sakes, so that you may learn, through us, that no one should be inflated against one person and for another, not beyond what has been written. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So, now you have been filled, and now you have been made wealthy, as if to reign without us? But I wish that you would reign, so that we, too, might reign with you! <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So we are fools because of Christ, but you are discerning in Christ? We are weak, but you are strong? You are noble, but we are ignoble? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Fatherly Warning<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For this reason, I have sent you Timothy, who is my dearest son, and who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere, in every church. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Certain persons have become inflated in thinking that I would not return to you. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But I will return to you soon, if the Lord is willing. And I will consider, not the words of those who are inflated, but the virtue. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in virtue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What would you prefer? Should I return to you with a rod, or with charity and a spirit of meekness?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>