1 Corinthians 4:1

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Summary

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Account

1 Corinthians 4:13

2 Corinthians 12:6

The ministers

And stewards

Mysteries

Bible References

Account

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

The ministers

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God;

Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

And stewards

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?

And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Mysteries

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory:

And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given.

And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:

And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,

Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:

That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,

And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,

The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness.