1 Corinthians 4:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

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  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are out of your mind; much learning is driving you mad.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we are glad when we are weak, and you are strong; and this also we wish, even your perfection.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us His Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is spoken of as evil, but on your part he is glorified.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Now you are full, now you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed, I wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
  • 1 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you gladly bear with fools, seeing that you yourselves are wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
  • 2 Cor 13:3-4 : 3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
  • 1 Cor 1:1-3 : 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:18-20 : 18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 1:26-28 : 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Cor 3:2 : 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 Then Jehu went out to the servants of his master: and one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you? And he said to them, You know the man and his message.
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 He who lacks wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity and the great hatred.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22-25 : 22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved. 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee to another: for truly I say to you, You shall not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his master, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call those of his household?
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He who hears you hears me; and he who despises you despises me; and he who despises me despises him who sent me.
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

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    17For we are not like many who corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.