# 1 Corinthians 4

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-corinthians/4

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. So let people regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.
2. Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found faithful.
3. But to me it is the least concern to be judged by you or by human judgment. No, I do not even judge myself.
4. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this, but the Lord is the one who judges me.
5. So don't judge anything before the proper time, until the Lord comes, who will both expose the secrets of darkness and uncover the intentions of the hearts; then praise will come to each one from God.
6. These things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos because of you, so that you might learn through us not to exceed what stands written, so no one of you becomes puffed up for one against the other.
7. For who distinguishes you? What do you have that you did not receive? If you received it, why do you boast as though you had not received it?
8. Already you have had your fill. Already you have grown rich. Without us you have begun to reign. Yes, would that you had reigned, so we also might reign with you.
9. For I think God has displayed us apostles last, as those appointed to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
10. We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are glorious, but we are dishonored.
11. Even to this present hour we hunger and thirst and go naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.
12. And we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless; persecuted, we endure.
13. Being reviled, we exhort; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all, even until now.
14. It is not to shame you that I write these things, but as my beloved children I warn.
15. For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.
16. Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.
17. For this reason I sent Timothy to you, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18. Now some have been puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19. But I will come to you soon if the Lord wills, and I will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20. For the kingdom of God depends not on speech but on power.
21. What do you wish? That I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

## Nearby chapters

[1 Corinthians 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-corinthians/3.md)
[1 Corinthians 5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-corinthians/5.md)

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