1 Corinthians 4

The Faithful Manager

1A person should think of us in this way: as servants # 4:1 Jn 18:36 of Christ and managers # 4:1 Lk 16:1 of the mysteries of God. # 4:1 1Co 2:7 2In this regard, it is required that managers be found faithful. # 4:2 Nm 12:7 3It is of little # 4:3 Mt 5:19 importance to me that I should be judged # 4:3 1Co 2:14 by you or by any human court. # 4:3 Lit a human day In fact, I don’t even judge myself. 4For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified # 4:4 Ac 13:39 by this. It is the Lord who judges me. 5So don’t judge # 4:5 Lk 6:37 anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, # 4:5 Mk 8:38; 1Pt 5:6 who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God. # 4:5 2Co 10:18

The Apostles’ Example of Humility

6Now, brothers and sisters, # 4:6 Ac 9:30 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos # 4:6 Ti 3:13 for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be arrogant, favoring one person over another. 7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it? 8You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us — and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you! 9For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people. 10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! # 4:10 1Pt 5:14 We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless; 12we labor, working # 4:12 2Jn 8 with our own hands. # 4:12 Ac 18:3 When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage. # 4:13 Is 64:6; Lm 3:45

Paul’s Fatherly Care

14I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children. # 4:14 1Th 2:11; Phm 1 15For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father # 4:15 Gl 4:19; Phm 10 in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17This is why I have sent # 4:17 2Co 9:3; Eph 6:21–22; Col 4:7–8; Phm 12 Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful # 4:17 Nm 12:7 child in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

18Now some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 19But I will come to you soon, # 4:19 Ac 19:21; 1Co 16:5; 2Co 1:15–16 if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk, but the power of those who are arrogant. 20For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 21What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, # 4:21 2Co 1:23; 2:1,3; 12:20–21; 13:2,10 or in love and a spirit of gentleness? # 4:21 Jms 3:13

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1 Corinthians 4

1So let a man consider us as Gabba'im of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and mefakkechim (stewards, supervisors) of the sodot (mysteries) of Hashem. 2Moreover, it is sought in mefakkechim that one be found that has ne'emanut (faithfulness). 3But to me it is a very small thing that I be brought, as it were, before your Bet Din for you to play dayanim (religious judges) judging me, or that I am judged by Bnei Adam on their merely human Yom HaDin; I do not even act as Dayan (Judge of a Rabbinical Court) of myself. 4I am aware of nothing against myself, but not in this have I been yitzdak (justified); it is the L-rd who is my Shofet (Judge).#4:4 Gn 18:25; Dan 7:13-14 5Therefore, do not judge anything before the time, until the Bias Adoneinu,#4:5 Moshiach who both will bring to Ohr (Light) the hidden things of the choshech (darkness) and manifest the motives of the levavot. And then the tehillah (praise) each one will receive will be from Hashem.#4:5 Job 12:22; Ps 90:8

6Now these things, Achim b'Moshiach, I made a dimyon (comparison) applied with respect to myself and Apollos for your sake, that through us you may learn not to go beyond what things have been written,#4:6 2:13 lest you are puffed up as ba'alei ga'avah (conceited, haughty persons) in favor of one or against the other. 7For who makes you so distinguished? And, by the way, what do you have which you did not receive? And if indeed you were given it, why this ga'avah, this boastfulness as if you had not received it?

8Already you have so much, already you ascended to osher (riches) and without us [Shlichim]! You became melechim (kings); I would that you did indeed become melechim that also we might reign as melechim with you. 9For, omein, I believe that Hashem has exhibited us, the Shlichim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, as last in the program, condemned to death, because, like wretches under a mishpat mavet (death sentence), we became displayed in the arena for the eyes of the Olam Hazeh, malachim as well as Bnei Adam.#4:9 Ps 71:7 10We are kesilim (fools) because of Moshiach, but you are chachamim in Moshiach; we are weak, but you are strong; you are treated with honor; we dishonor. 11Until the present sha'ah (hour) we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten and homeless. 12And we have parnasah, toiling with our own hands; being reviled, we make a bracha; being persecuted, we endure it: 13Being defamed by loshon hora, we conciliate. We have become what the earth wants swept out the door, something considered trash the Olam Hazeh wants removed.#4:13 Jer 20:18; Lam 3:45

14The purpose of this iggeret is not to bring you under bushah (shame). I write these things as admonishing my beloved yeladim. 15For, though you may have in Moshiach morei derech numbering ten thousand, you have not many avot, for in Moshiach through the Besuras HaGeulah I#4:15 T.N. Notice 1C 4:6 indicates the canon of inerrant Scripture is closed and may not be added to. became your abba. 16Therefore, I encourage you, imitate me. 17Because of this very thing, I sent Timotiyos to you who is my beni haahuv (beloved son) and ne'eman (faithful), trustworthy in Hashem, who will remind you of my derech baKodesh in Moshiach, even as I give shiurim everywhere in every kehillah. 18Now as to my coming to you, some were puffed up,#4:18 Jer 43:2 19But I will come shortly to you, im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills), and I will find out not the speech of the ones having been puffed up but the ko'ach (power). 20For the Malchut Hashem depends not on the talk [of the ish sefatayim (the eloquent speaker)] but on ko'ach (power). 21What do you want? That I should come to you, so to speak, with an abbaʼs switch or in ahavah and an anavat ruach (a spirit of meekness)?

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