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\subsection{I Corinthians 4}
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\VS{1} Let\fnImperative{} [a] man thus reckon us, as officers of Christ and
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stewards of the mysteries of God.
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\VS{2} Moreover it is sought in stewards
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that one be found trustworthy.
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\VS{3} But with me it is [the] least [thing] that I be
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appraised by you or by man's count, but neither do I appraise myself.
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\VS{4} For I am conscious of nothing in myself, but not in this am I justified, but
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the [one] appraising me is [the] Lord.
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\VS{5} So be judging nothing before [the]
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opportune-time\fnKairos{}, until the Lord come, who will also illuminate the secret
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[things] of darkness and manifest the intentions of the hearts. And then the praise
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will come to pass to each [one] from God.
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\VS{6} And these [things], brothers, I have
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applied to myself and Apollo on your account, in order that you learn among
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you the [thing] not above what is written, in order that you not be being puffed up
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above the other against the other.
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\VS{7} For who differentiates you? And
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what do you have which you did not receive? And if you indeed received, why
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boast as though not having received?
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\VS{8} You are already full, you are
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already rich, without us you had reigned [as kings], and O that you did reign, in
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order that we also reign with you.
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\VS{9} For I suppose [that] God has displayed us apostles last, as condemned to
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death, that we become [a] spectacle to the world and to [the] angels and to men.
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\VS{10} We [are] fools on account of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ. We [are]
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weak, but you [are] strong. You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.
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\VS{11} Even until this present hour we hunger and thirst, and are naked and are
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beaten and homeless,
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\VS{12} and labor working with our own hands. Being
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reviled we bless, being persecuted we bear [it],
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\VS{13} being defamed we exhort, we have become as [the] garbage of the world, and [we are] the scum of everything until now.
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\VS{14} Not shaming you do I write these [things], but as admonishing my
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agape-beloved children.
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\VS{15} For you have innumerable instructors in
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Christ, but not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus through the good-news have
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I begotten you.
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\VS{16} I therefore call upon you, be becoming imitators of me.
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\VS{17} Because of this same [thing] have I sent Timothy to you, who is my
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agape-beloved child and trustworthy in [the] Lord, who will remind you of my ways
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[which are] in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every assembly\fnEkklhsia{}.
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\VS{18} Now as though I [am] not coming are some [of you] puffed up,
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\VS{19} But I will come swiftly to
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you, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the word of [those] puffed up, but
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their power.
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\VS{20} For not in word [is] the kingdom of God, but in power.
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\VS{21} What do you want? Should I come to you with [a] rod, or in agape-love
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and in [the] spirit of gentleness?
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