1 Corinthians 4

1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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

2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Here 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 a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human tribunal; nay, I do not even judge myself;

4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

for though I am conscious to myself of nothing wrong, yet not by this am I cleared of blame; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of men's hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.

6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.

7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honour, but we have dishonour.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.

11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place,

12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it;

13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the off-scouring of all things until now.

14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I write not these things to shame you, but I am warning you as my beloved children.

15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

For though ye have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

I exhort you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

For this end I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will put you in mind of my ways in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every church.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lord's will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;

20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

What will ye? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of mildness?