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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Nature of True Apostleship</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, &#8220;Do not go beyond what is written.&#8221; Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign&#8212;and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world&#8212;right up to this moment.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Appeal and Warning</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore I urge you to imitate me. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you humble of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">you who do what he commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">Seek righteousness, seek humility;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">perhaps you will be sheltered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">on the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.5.5"><span class="content">&#8220;God opposes the proud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.5.5"><span class="content">but shows favor to the humble.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Prov. 3:34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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