 4:1  Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of
Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
 4:2  Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
faithful.
 4:3  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.
 4:4  For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby
justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
 4:5  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.
 4:6  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.
 4:7  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]?
 4:8  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.
 4:9  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.
 4:10  We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in
Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are]
honourable, but we [are] despised.
 4:11  Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst,
and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
dwellingplace;
 4:12  And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled,
we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
 4:13  Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of
the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this
day.
 4:14  I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved
sons I warn [you].
 4:15  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.
 4:16  Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
 4:17  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 every
where in every church.
 4:18  Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to
you.
 4:19  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.
 4:20  For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.
 4:21  What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in
love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
