So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries. 1Pe 4:101Ti 3:9Tit 1:7Eph 6:192Co 4:5Col 1:25-271Co 9:16-18Rom 16:25 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. Mat 25:21Luk 12:42Luk 16:10-12Col 4:17Num 12:72Co 2:17Mat 25:23Pro 13:17 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. 1Co 2:15Jhn 7:241Sa 16:71Co 3:13 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. Psa 143:21Jn 3:20-21Pro 21:2Psa 130:32Co 1:12Psa 19:121Co 4:52Co 5:10 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. Jas 5:72Co 5:101Co 3:13Heb 4:132Co 10:18Rom 2:16Ecc 12:14Rom 2:1
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. 2Co 11:42Co 12:192Co 12:6Col 2:18Rom 12:31Th 1:5Jhn 3:26-271Co 1:31 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? Jhn 3:271Pe 4:10Jas 1:171Ch 29:11-16Jhn 1:16Rom 12:6Pro 2:6Luk 19:13
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! Pro 13:71Co 5:62Co 13:9Gal 6:3Luk 6:25Rom 12:31Co 1:51Th 2:19-20 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. Heb 10:332Co 4:8-12Rom 8:361Co 15:30-322Co 1:8-10Heb 1:14Php 1:29-301Th 3:3 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 1Co 2:31Co 3:182Co 13:9Act 17:18Act 26:241Pe 4:142Co 11:19Hos 9:7 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. Rom 8:352Co 11:23-27Php 4:122Ti 3:11Mat 8:202Co 6:4-5Job 22:61Co 9:4 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 1Pe 3:9Mat 5:11Rom 12:141Pe 4:12-14Act 18:3Luk 6:28Rom 12:201Pe 2:23 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. Lam 3:45Act 22:22
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 1Th 2:113Jn 1:41Co 4:151Co 9:151Th 5:142Co 12:19Col 1:281Co 15:34 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. 1Co 3:10Gal 4:191Co 9:141Co 9:231Pe 1:231Co 3:61Co 9:121Co 9:18 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. 1Co 11:12Th 3:9Php 3:171Th 1:6Heb 13:7Php 4:9Jhn 10:4-51Pe 5:3 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. 1Co 16:101Ti 1:21Co 7:172Ti 1:21Co 14:331Co 16:11Co 11:21Co 7:25 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 1Co 4:6-81Co 5:21Co 4:21 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. 2Co 13:1-4Act 18:21Act 19:211Co 11:341Co 14:51Co 2:61Co 4:182Co 1:23 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power. 1Co 2:41Th 1:52Co 10:4-5Rom 14:17Rom 1:16Rom 15:191Co 1:24 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? 2Co 13:22Co 13:101Th 2:72Co 12:20-212Co 1:232Co 2:3Jas 3:172Co 10:1-2