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

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1 Peter 4:10, 1 Peter 4:10, Titus 1:7, 1 Timothy 3:9, Titus 1:7

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

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Matthew 25:21, Matthew 25:21, Luke 12:42, Luke 12:42, Luke 16:10

3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I do not judge my own self.

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1 Corinthians 2:15, John 7:24, 1 Corinthians 2:15, John 7:24, 1 Corinthians 3:13

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

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Psalms 143:2, Psalms 143:2, 1 John 3:20, 1 John 3:21, 1 John 3:20

5Therefore 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.

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James 5:7, James 5:7, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Corinthians 3:13

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

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2 Corinthians 11:4, 2 Corinthians 11:4, 2 Corinthians 12:19, 2 Corinthians 12:6, 2 Corinthians 12:19

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

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John 3:27, John 3:27, 1 Peter 4:10, 1 Peter 4:10, James 1:17

8You 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.

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Proverbs 13:7, 1 Corinthians 1:5, Luke 1:51, Luke 1:53, 1 Thessalonians 2:19

9For, 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.

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Hebrews 10:33, Hebrews 10:33, Romans 8:36, 2 Corinthians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:12

10We 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.

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1 Corinthians 2:3, 1 Corinthians 2:3, Acts 26:24, Acts 26:24, Acts 17:18

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

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Romans 8:35, Romans 8:35, Philippians 4:12, 2 Corinthians 11:23, 2 Corinthians 11:27

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

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1 Peter 3:9, 1 Peter 3:9, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 5:11, 1 Peter 4:12

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

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Lamentations 3:45, Lamentations 3:45, Acts 22:22, Acts 22:22

14I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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1 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 3 John 1:4, 1 Corinthians 9:15, 1 Corinthians 4:15

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

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Galatians 4:19, Galatians 4:19, 1 Corinthians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 9:23

16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

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2 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Philippians 3:17, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Philippians 3:17

17Because 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 church.

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1 Corinthians 16:10, 1 Timothy 1:2, 1 Corinthians 16:10, 1 Timothy 1:2, 1 Corinthians 7:17

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

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1 Corinthians 5:2, 1 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Corinthians 4:8, 1 Corinthians 5:2, 1 Corinthians 4:6

19But 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.

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2 Corinthians 13:1, 2 Corinthians 13:4, 2 Corinthians 13:1, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Acts 18:21

20For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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1 Corinthians 2:4, 1 Corinthians 2:4, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4

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

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2 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 12:20, 2 Corinthians 12:21, 2 Corinthians 13:10