1 Corinthians 4

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.	1 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.	2 Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
3 But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by man's day; but neither do I judge my own self.	3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself.
4 For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.	4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
5 Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.	5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God.
6 But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.	6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
7 For who distinguisheth thee ? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received ? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ?	7 For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?
8 You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.	8 Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
9 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.	9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.	10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
11 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;	11 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless,
12 And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.	12 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
13 We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.	13 when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
14 I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.	14 I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.	15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.	16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.	17 Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.	18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.	19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.	20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
21 What will you ? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness ?	21 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?