1 Corinthians 4:10

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 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.
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
  • 1 Cor 10:14-15 : 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
  • 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
  • 2 Cor 13:3-4 : 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you. 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • 1 Cor 1:1-3 : 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:18-20 : 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, 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, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 1:26-28 : 26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Cor 3:2 : 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."
  • Prov 11:12 : 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22-25 : 22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come. 24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all 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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    19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

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    6 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.

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    17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.