1 Corinthians 4:1-5
THE WORK OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST. Faithfulness required:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORK OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST. Faithfulness required:... [ Continue Reading ]
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US, AS OF THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST AND STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOREOVER, IT IS REQUIRED IN STEWARDS THAT A MAN BE FOUND FAITHFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I KNOW NOTHING BY MYSELF; YET AM I NOT HEREBY JUSTIFIED; BUT HE THAT JUDGETH ME IS THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, UNTIL THE LORD COME, WHO BOTH WILL BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS, AND WILL MAKE MANIFEST THE COUNSELS OF THE HEARTS; AND THEN SHALL EVERY MAN HAVE PRAISE OF GOD. The apostle had shown the relation of himself and the other teachers to the Church... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THESE THINGS, BRETHREN, I HAVE IN A FIGURE TRANSFERRED TO MYSELF AND TO APOLLOS FOR YOUR SAKES, THAT YE MIGHT LEARN IN US NOT TO THINK OF MEN ABOVE THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN, THAT NO ONE OF YOU BE PUFFED UP FOR ONE AGAINST ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
All spiritual gifts from God:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? AND WHAT HAST THOU THAT THOU DIDST NOT RECEIVE? NOW, IF THOU DIDST RECEIVE IT, WHY DOST THOU GLORY AS IF THOU HADST NOT RECEIVED IT? In order to make the illustration more concrete, and to bring it home to his readers with greater force, Paul purposely mad... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW YE ARE FULL, NOW YE ARE RICH, YE HAVE REIGNED AS KINGS WITHOUT US; AND I WOULD TO GOD YE DID REIGN, THAT WE ALSO MIGHT REIGN WITH YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
The status of the heralds of salvation:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US, THE APOSTLES, LAST, AS IT WERE APPOINTED TO DEATH; FOR WE ARE MADE A SPECTACLE UNTO THE WORLD AND TO ANGELS AND TO MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, BUT YE ARE WISE IN CHRIST; WE ARE WEAK, BUT YE ARE STRONG; YE ARE HONORABLE, BUT WE ARE DESPISED.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR WE BOTH HUNGER, AND THIRST, AND ARE NAKED, AND ARE BUFFETED, AND HAVE NO CERTAIN DWELLING-PLACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LABOR, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS; BEING REVILED, WE BLESS; BEING PERSECUTED, WE SUFFER IT;... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING DEFAMED, WE INTREAT; WE ARE MADE AS THE FILTH OF THE WORLD, AND ARE THE OFFSCOURING OF ALL THINGS UNTO THIS DAY. The behavior of the Corinthians had resulted in a most unfortunate condition, namely, in this, that they believed themselves perfect in their congregational life and wanting in noth... [ Continue Reading ]
I WRITE NOT THESE THINGS TO SHAME YOU, BUT AS MY BELOVED SONS I WARN YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle's fatherly discipline:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND INSTRUCTORS IN CHRIST, YET HAVE YE NOT MANY FATHERS; FOR IN CHRIST JESUS I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU THROUGH THE GOSPEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore I beseech you, Be ye followers of me.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE HAVE I SENT UNTO YOU TIMOTHEUS, WHO IS MY BELOVED SON AND FAITHFUL IN THE LORD, WHO SHALL BRING YOU INTO REMEMBRANCE OF MY WAYS WHICH BE IN CHRIST, AS I TEACH EVERYWHERE IN EVERY CHURCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW SOME ARE PUFFED UP, AS THOUGH I WOULD NOT COME TO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I WILL COME TO YOU SHORTLY, IF THE LORD WILL, AND WILL KNOW, NOT THE SPEECH OF THEM WHICH ARE PUFFED UP, BUT THE POWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT IN WORD, BUT IN POWER.... [ Continue Reading ]
What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? The apostle had written the last passage in holy indignation; like a stream, his speech had poured forth portraying the afflictions which were heaped upon the ministers of the Lord. And he can almost feel the... [ Continue Reading ]