4You should think of us as Christ's servants, who have been put in charge of God's secret truths.G3049G444G3779G3049G2248G5613G5257G5547G2532G3623G3466G23162The one thing required of such servants is that they be faithful to their master.G3739G1161G3063G2212G1722G3623G2443G5100G2147G41033Now, I am not at all concerned about being judged by you or by any human standard; I don't even pass judgment on myself.G1161G1698G2076G1519G1646G2443G350G5259G5216G2228G5259G442G2250G235G350G3761G16834My conscience is clear, but that does not prove that I am really innocent. The Lord is the one who passes judgment on me.G1063G4894G3762G1683G235G1344G3756G1722G5129G1344G1161G350G3165G2076G29625So you should not pass judgment on anyone before the right time comes. Final judgment must wait until the Lord comes; he will bring to light the dark secrets and expose the hidden purposes of people's minds. And then all will receive from God the praise they deserve.G5620G2919G3361G5100G4253G2540G2193G302G2962G2064G3739G2532G5461G2927G4655G2532G5319G1012G2588G2532G5119G1538G1096G1868G575G23166For your sake, my friends, I have applied all this to Apollos and me, using the two of us as an example, so that you may learn what the saying means, "Observe the proper rules." None of you should be proud of one person and despise another.G1161G5023G80G3345G1519G1683G2532G625G1223G5209G2443G3129G1722G2254G3361G5426G5228G2443G3739G1125G3363G1520G5448G5228G1520G2596G20877Who made you superior to others? Didn't God give you everything you have? Well, then, how can you boast, as if what you have were not a gift?G1063G5101G1252G4571G1252G1161G5101G2192G3739G2983G3756G2983G1161G1499G2983G5101G2744G5613G2983G3361G29838Do you already have everything you need? Are you already rich? Have you become kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we could be kings together with you.G2235G2075G2880G2235G4147G936G5565G2257G2532G3785G1065G936G2443G2249G2532G4821G52139For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.G1063G1380G3754G2316G584G2248G652G2078G5613G1935G3754G1096G2302G2889G2532G32G2532G44410For Christ's sake we are fools; but you are wise in union with Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! We are despised, but you are honored!G2249G3474G1223G5547G1223G1161G5210G5429G1722G5547G2249G772G1161G5210G2478G5210G1741G1161G2249G82011To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;G891G737G5610G3983G2532G3983G2532G1372G2532G1130G2532G2852G2532G79012we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;G2532G2872G2038G2398G5495G3058G2127G1377G43013when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment!G987G3870G1096G5613G4027G2889G4067G3956G2193G73714I write this to you, not because I want to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as my own dear children.G1125G3756G5023G1788G5209G235G5613G3450G27G5043G356015For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.G1063G1437G2192G3463G3807G1722G5547G235G3756G4183G3962G1063G1722G5547G2424G1473G1080G5209G1223G209816I beg you, then, to follow my example.G3767G3870G5209G1096G3402G345017For this purpose I am sending to you Timothy, who is my own dear and faithful son in the Christian life. He will remind you of the principles which I follow in the new life in union with Christ Jesus and which I teach in all the churches everywhere.G1223G5124G1223G3992G5213G5095G3739G2076G3450G27G5043G2532G4103G1722G2962G3739G363G5209G363G3450G3598G3588G1722G5547G2531G1321G3837G1722G3956G157718Some of you have become proud because you have thought that I would not be coming to visit you.G1161G5100G5448G5613G3450G2064G3361G2064G4314G520919If the Lord is willing, however, I will come to you soon, and then I will find out for myself the power which these proud people have, and not just what they say.G1161G2064G4314G5209G5030G1437G2962G2309G2532G1097G3756G3056G5448G235G141120For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of words but of power.G1063G932G2316G3756G1722G3056G235G1722G141121Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in a spirit of love and gentleness?G5101G2309G2064G4314G5209G1722G4464G2228G1722G26G5037G4151G4236
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