1 Corinthians 4:10

Coverdale Bible (1535)

We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed.

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  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was amonge you in weaknes, and in feare, and in moch tremblinge:
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 But certayne Philosophers of ye Epicurees and Stoikes disputed with him. And some sayde: What will this babler saye? But some sayde: He semeth to be a tidinges brynger of new goddes (That was, because he had preached vnto the the Gospell of Iesus, & of the resurreccion.)
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 Whan he thus answered for himselfe, Festus sayde with a loude voyce: Paul, thou art besydes thy selfe, moch lernynge maketh ye madd.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 We are glad whan we are weake, & ye stronge: & the same also we wysshe for, namely yor perfectnesse.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 He therfore that despyseth, despyseth not man, but God, which hath geuen his holy sprete in to you.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Now ye are full, now ye are made riche, ye raigne without vs, and wolde God ye dyd raigne, that we might raigne with you.
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therfore let him that thinketh he stondeth, take hede, lest he fall.
  • 1 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 Wherfore my dearly beloued, fle from worshippinge of Idols. 15 I speake vnto them which haue discrecio, iudge ye what I saye.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not?
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficiet for the. For my strength is made perfecte thorow weaknes. Very glad therfore wil I reioyse in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me. 10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.
  • 2 Cor 13:3-4 : 3 seynge that ye seke experiece of him, which speaketh in me, euen Christ, which amonge you is not weake, but is mightie amoge you. 4 And though he was crucified in weaknes, yet lyueth he in the power of God. And though we are weake in him, yet lyue we with him in the power of God amonge you.
  • 1 Cor 1:1-3 : 1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ thorow ye will of God, and brother Sosthenes, 2 vnto the congregacion off God which is at Corinthum, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, sayntes by callinge, with all them that call vpon the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, in euery place both off theirs and oures. 3 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father, and from the LORDE Iesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:18-20 : 18 For the worde of ye crosse is foolishnesse to the that perishe but vnto vs which are saued, it is the power of God. 19 For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet. 20 Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?
  • 1 Cor 1:26-28 : 26 Brethren loke on youre callinge, how that not many wyseme after the flesh, not many mightie, not many of hye degre are called: 27 but that foolish is before the worlde, hath God chosen, that he mighte cofounde the wyse: And that weake is before ye worlde, hath God chosen, yt he mighte confounde the mightye. 28 And the vyle and despysed before the worlde hath God chosen, yee and that which is nothinge, that he mighte destroye that which is oughte,
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Whan they herde of the resurreccion of the deed, some mocked. But some sayde: We wyl heare the agayne of this matter.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Cor 3:2 : 2 I gaue you mylke to drynke, and not meate, for ye mighte not then awaye withall, nether maye ye yet euen now, in so moch as ye are yet fleshlye.
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 And wha Iehu came forth to his lordes seruauntes, they saide vnto him: Are all thinges well? Wherfore came this madd felowe vnto the? He saide vnto them: Ye knowe the man well, & what he hath spoken.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 A foole bryngeth vp a slaunder of his neghboure, but a wyse man wil kepe it secrete.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He shalbe the most symple & despised of all, which yet hath good experience of sorowes & infirmities. We shal reken him so symple & so vyle, that we shal hyde oure faces fro him.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How darre ye saye then: we are wise, we haue the lawe of the LORDE amonge vs? Beholde, the disceatfull penne of the scrybes, setteth forth lies: 9 therfore shal the wise be confounded, they shalbe afrayed and taken: for lo, they haue cast out the worde of the LORDE: what wy?dome can then be amonge them?
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 Be ye sure (O Israel) the tyme of visitacion is come, the dayes of recompencinge are at honde. As for the prophet, ye holde him for a foole: and him that is rich in the sprete, for a mad man: so greate is youre wickednes and malice.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are ye when men reuyle you, and persecute you, and falsly say all manner of yuell saynges against you for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22-25 : 22 & ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake. But he yt endureth to the ende, shalbe saued. 23 When they persecute you in one cite, flye in to another. I tell you for a treuth, ye shall not fynysshe all the cities of Israel, tyll the sonne of man come. 24 The disciple is not aboue the master, nether the seruaunt aboue the LORDE. 25 It is ynough for the disciple, to be as his master, and the seruaunt as his LORDE. Yf they haue called the good ma of the house Beelzebub, how moch more shal they call them of his housholde so?
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shal they put you to trouble, & shal kyll you, and ye shalbe hated of all people for my names sake.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are ye, whan men hate you, and put you out of their copanyes, and reuyle you, and cast out youre name as an euell thinge, for the sonne of mans sake.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despyseth you, despyseth me: but who so despyseth me, despyseth him yt sent me.
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And vnto certayne which trusted in the selues, that they were perfecte, and despysed other,he spake this symilitude:
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 I wil shewe him, how greate thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

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    11 Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place,

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    13 We are euell spoken of, and we praye: We are become as it were the very outswepinges of ye worlde, yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme.

  • 25 For the foolishnes of God is wyser then men: and the weaknes of God is stroger the men.

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    3 seynge that ye seke experiece of him, which speaketh in me, euen Christ, which amonge you is not weake, but is mightie amoge you.

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    19 For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse.

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    21 I speake concernynge rebuke, as though we were weake.Wherin so euer now eny man darre be bolde (I speake folishly) therin darre I be bolde also.

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    10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.

    11 I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge,

  • 27 but that foolish is before the worlde, hath God chosen, that he mighte cofounde the wyse: And that weake is before ye worlde, hath God chosen, yt he mighte confounde the mightye.

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    12 We prayse not oure selues agayne vnto you, but geue you an occasion to reioyse of vs, yt ye maye haue to reioyse agaynst them, which reioyse after the outwarde appearaunce, and not after the hert.

    13 For yf we do to moch, we do it vnto God: yf we kepe measure,we do it for youre sakes.

  • 5 For we preach not or selues, but Iesus Christ to be the LORDE, and oure selues youre seruauntes for Iesus sake.

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    7 But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs.

    8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat.

    9 We are persecuted, but we are not forsaken. We are oppressed, neuertheles we perish not.

    10 We allwayes beare aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus yt the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body.

    11 For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh.

    12 Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you.

  • 16 I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folish: or els take me euen now as a fole, yt I maye boast my selfe a litle also.

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    10 as sorowynge, and yet allwaye mery: as poore, & yet make many riche: as hauynge nothinge, & yet possessynge all thinges.

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    7 Loke ye on thinges after ye vtter appearauce?Yf eny man trust of himselfe yt he is Christes, let him thinke this also by himselfe, yt like as he is Christes, eue so are we Christes also.

    8 And though I shulde boast my selfe somwhat more of oure auctorite which ye LORDE hath geue vs to edifye and not to destroye, it shulde not be to my shame.

  • 6 nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ,

  • 8 Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life,

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    10 For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.

    11 Let him yt is soche, thinke on this wyse, that as we are in worde by letters wha we are absente, soch are we also in dede whan we are present.

    12 For we darre not reken or compare oure selues, vnto some that prayse them selues: Neuertheles whyle they measure them selues by them selues, and holde onely of them selues, they vnderstonde nothinge.

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    18 Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse.

    19 For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse.

  • 4 so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,

  • 9 Not but that we had auctorite, but to geue oure selues for an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

  • 1 Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not,

  • 20 Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?

  • 12 But yf other be partakers of this power on you, wherfore are not we rather? Neuertheles we haue not vsed this power, but suffre all thinges, lest we shulde hynder the Gospell off Christ.

  • 19 Agayne, thynke ye yt we excuse oure selues? We speake in Christ in the sighte off God. But all this (dearly beloued) is done for yor edifyenge.

  • 2 but as we had suffred afore, & were shamefully intreated at Philippos (as ye knowe) we were bolde in oure God, to speake vnto you ye Gospel of God with moch stryuynge.

  • 18 For the worde of ye crosse is foolishnesse to the that perishe but vnto vs which are saued, it is the power of God.

  • 36 As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne.

  • 6 These thinges brethren haue I described in myne awne preson & in Apollos for youre sakes, that ye mighte lerne by vs, that noman counte hygher of him self, then aboue is wrytten, that one be not puft vp agaynst another for eny mans cause.

  • 16 Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.

  • 17 For we are not as many are, which choppe & chaunge wt the worde of God, but eue out of purenesse, and out of God, in ye sighte of God, so speake we in Christ.