1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-16
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?
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.
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.
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.
EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR
WE BOTH HUNGER,
AND THIRST,
AND ARE NAKED,
AND ARE BUFFETED,
AND HAVE NO CERTAIN
DWELLINGPLACE;
AND LABOUR,
WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS:
BEING REVILED, WE BLESS;
BEING PERSECUTED, WE SUFFER IT:
BEING DEFAMED, WE INTREAT:
WE ARE MADE AS
THE FILTH OF THE WORLD,
AND ARE OFFSCOURING
OF ALL THINGS UNTO THIS DAY.
I write not these
things to shame you,
but as my beloved sons
I warn you.
FOR THOUGH YE HAVE TEN THOUSAND INSTRUCTERS IN CHRIST,
YET YE NOT MANY FATHERS:
for
in
Christ Jesus
I have begotten you
through
the gospel Wherefore
I beseech you,
be ye followers of me.
LOVE
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