1 Corinthians 4:1 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season

¹¹ And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:

¹⁰ And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?

¹ And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods. ² And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward. ³ And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

²⁵ And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory:

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?

¹³ Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

¹⁶ For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news! ¹⁷ For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. ¹⁸ What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

⁵ For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

⁴ But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

²³ Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

⁶ For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:

³ That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly, ⁴ By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) ⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: ⁶ For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news: ⁷ Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ. ⁹ And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

¹⁹ And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,

²⁵ Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; ²⁶ The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones: ²⁷ To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

² That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

³ Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

⁶ Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

⁹ Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness.

¹⁶ And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

¹⁰ As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.