1 Corinthians 4
4:1So let a man consider us as servants of Christ, and managers of the mysteries of God!
4:2But remaining, it is sought in the managers that one should be found trustworthy.
4:3But to me it is a least thing that I should be examined by you, or by a human's day. But not even myself do I examine.
4:4For nothing by myself am I fully conscious; but not in this have I been justified; but the one examining me is the Lord.
4:5So that judge not anything before its time! until whenever the Lord should come, who both will give light to the hidden things of the darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then the high praise shall be to each from God.
4:6And these things, brethren, I changed appearance to myself and Apollos on account of you, that in us you should learn not to think above what has been written, that not one over one you be inflated against the other.
4:7For who scrutinizes you? And what do you have which you have not received? And if also you received, why do you boast as not having received?
4:8Are you already satisfied? Are you already enriched? Do you reign apart from us? And I ought indeed that you reigned, that also we with you should have reigned together.
4:9For I think that God exhibited us apostles last as condemned to death, for we became a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.
4:10We are moronish on account of Christ, but you are skilled in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are without honor.
4:11As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and unsettled;
4:12and we tire working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
4:13being blasphemed, we appeal; as the rubbish of the world, we were of all the sweepings until now.
4:14Not shaming you do I write these things, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
4:15For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus through the good news I engendered you.
4:16I appeal to you then, become mimics of me!
4:17On account of this I send to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and trustworthy in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways -- the ones in Christ, as everywhere in every assembly I teach.
4:18And as to my not coming to you, some were inflated.
4:19But I shall come quickly to you, if the Lord should want, and I will know, not the word of the ones being inflated, but the power.
4:20For not is the kingdom of God in word, but in power.
4:21What do you want? Should I come with a rod to you, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?