1 Corinthians 4:3–6:11

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be ejudged of you, or of man’s †judgment: yea, I ejudge not mine own self. 4 For fI know nothing by myself; gyet am I not hereby justified: but he that ejudgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore hjudge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, iwho both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and kthen shall every man have lpraise of God.

6 And these things, brethren, mI have nin a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us onot to think of men above that which is written, pthat no one of you qbe puffed up for one against another. 7 For who †rmaketh thee to differ from another? and swhat hast thou that thou didst not treceive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, unow ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and xI would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For yI think that God hath set forth ||us the apostles last, zas it were appointed to death: for awe are made a †spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 10 bWe are fools for Christ’s sake, but bbye are wise in Christ; cwe are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both dhunger, and dthirst, and deare naked, and fare buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 12 And glabour, working with our own hands: hbeing reviled, we bless; ibeing persecuted, we suffer it: 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made jas the filth of the world, and are kthe offscouring of all things unto this day. 14 I write not these things to lshame you, but mas my beloved sons I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand ninstructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for oin Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, pbe ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you qTimotheus, rwho is my beloved son, and sfaithful in the Lord, who shall tbring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, uas I teach every where in every church. 18 Now xsome are ypuffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 zBut I will come to you shortly, aif the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are ypuffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but bin power. 21 What will ye? cshall I come unto you dwith a rod, or in love, and in ethe spirit of meekness?

5 It is reported acommonly that there is aafornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as bnamed among the Gentiles, cthat one should have his dfather’s wife. 2 And ye are epuffed up, and have not rather fmourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as gabsent in body, but present in spirit, have ||judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, gand my spirit, hwith the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 iTo deliver such an one unto kSatan for the destruction of the flesh, lthat the spirit may be saved in mthe day of the Lord Jesus. 6 nYour glorying is not good. Know ye not that oa little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even pChrist our passover ||is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore qlet us keep ||the feast, qnot with old leaven, neither with othe leaven of rmalice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of ssincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in tan epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 uYet not altogether with the fornicators wof this world, or with xythe covetous, or yzextortioners, or with yidolaters; for then must zzye needs go out of the world. 11 But tnow I have written unto you not to keep company, aif any man that is called a brother be a tfornicator, or ycovetous, or an yidolater, or a brailer, or a cdrunkard, or an yextortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge dthem also that are without? do not ye judge ethem that are within? 13 But dthem that are without God judgeth. Therefore fput away from among yourselves that wicked person.

6 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and anot before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that bthe saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall cjudge angels? how much more things dthat pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things dpertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 eI speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to fjudge between his brethren? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is gutterly a hfault among you, because ye go to law one with another. iWhy do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, jand defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous kshall not inherit the kingdom of God? lBe not deceived: kneither mnofornicators, nor oidolaters, nor nadulterers, nor effeminate, nor mpabusers of themselves with mankind, 10 kNor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were qsome of you: but rye are washed, but sye are sanctified, but tye are justified uin the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.