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   16 (1Co 6:19; 2Co 6:16) Do you not know that you are the temple of God,   
   and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?   
   17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him.   
   For the temple of God is holy. And you are His temple.   
   18 (Isa 5:21; Gal 6:3) Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems   
   to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise.   
   19 (Job 5:13) For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.   
   For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness,"(Job 5:13.)   
   20 (Ps 94:11) and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise,   
   that they are vain."(Ps 94:11.)   
   21(1Co 4:6; Ro 8:32) Therefore let no one boast in men.   
   For all things are yours:   
   22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life   
   or death or things present or things to come, all are yours,   
   23 (2Co 10:7; Gal 3:29) and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.   
      
   [1] And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto   
   carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.   
   [2] I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not   
   able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.   
   [3] For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and   
   strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?   
   [4] For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye   
   not carnal?   
   [5] Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed,   
   even as the Lord gave to every man?   
   [6] I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.   
   [7] So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;   
   but God that giveth the increase.   
   [8] Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall   
   receive his own reward according to his own labour.   
   [9] For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are   
   God's building.   
   [10] According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise   
   masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But   
   let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.   
   [11] For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus   
   Christ.   
   [12] Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious   
   stones, wood, hay, stubble;   
   [13] Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,   
   because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's   
   work of what sort it is.   
   [14] If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive   
   a reward.   
   [15] If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself   
   shall be saved; yet so as by fire.   
   [16] Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God   
   dwelleth in you?   
   [17] If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the   
   temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.   
   [18] Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in   
   this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.   
   [19] For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is   
   written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.   
   [20] And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are   
   vain.   
   [21] Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;   
   [22] Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,   
   or things present, or things to come; all are yours;   
   [23] And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.   
      
   1 Corinthians 4   
      
   The Ministry of the Apostles   
      
   1 (Ro 16:25; Titus 1:7) Let a man so regard us as the ministers of Christ   
   and stewards of the mysteries of God.   
   2 Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.   
   3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you   
   or by man's judgment. I do not even judge myself.   
   4 (Ps 143:2; 130:3) For I know nothing against myself.   
   Yet I am not justified by this. But He who judges me is the Lord.   
   5 (Ro 2:16; 2:1; 2:29) Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time   
   until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness   
   and will reveal the purposes of the hearts. Then everyone will have   
   commendation from God.   
   6 (1Co 1:12; 13:4) Brothers, I have figuratively applied these things   
   to myself and to Apollos for your sakes, so that you may learn from us   
   not to think of men above that which is written, and that not one of you   
   would be arrogant for one against another.   
   7 (Jn 3:27; Ro 12:6) For who makes you differ from another?   
   And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you received it,   
   why do you boast as if you had not received it?   
   8 (Rev 3:17) Now you are full, now you are rich; you have begun reigning   
   as kings without us, and I wish to God you reigned, so that we also might   
   reign with you.   
   9 (Ro 8:36; Heb 10:33) For I think that God has exhibited us, the apostles,   
   last, as if we were sentenced to death. For we have been made a spectacle   
   to the world, to angels and to men.   
   10 (1Co 2:3; Ac 17:18; 26:24) We are fools for Christ's sake,   
   but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong.   
   You are honorable, but we are despised.   
   11 (Ro 8:35; 2Co 11:23-27) Even to this present hour we both hunger   
   and thirst, and are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless.   
   12 (1Pe 3:9; Ac 18:3; Mt 5:11) We labor, working with our own hands.   
   Being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.   
   13 (La 3:45) Being slandered, we encourage. We are made as the filth   
   of the world, and are the refuse of all things to this day.   
   14 (1Th 2:11; 1Co 4:15) I do not write these things to shame you,   
   but as my beloved sons I warn you.   
   15 (Gal 4:19; 1Co 3:10) For if you were to have ten thousand instructors   
   in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. In Christ Jesus   
   I have become a father to you through the gospel.   
   16 (1Co 11:1; Php 3:17) So I implore you, be followers of me.   
   17 (1Co 7:17; 1Ti 1:2) Therefore I have sent Timothy to you.   
   He is my beloved son and is faithful in the Lord.   
   He will remind you of my ways which are in Christ,   
   as I teach everywhere in every church.   
   18 Now some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.   
   19 (Ac 18:21; 19:21) But I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills.   
   And I will know not only what those who are arrogant are saying,   
   but also their power.   
   20 (1Co 2:4) For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.   
   21 (2Co 13:2; 1:23) What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod,   
   or in love and in the spirit of meekness?   
      
   [1] Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards   
   of the mysteries of God.   
   [2] Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.   
   [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] For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that   
   judgeth me is the Lord.   
   [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.   
   [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.   
   [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?   
      
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