1 Corinthians 4:1
Let men this wyse esteme vs even as the ministers of Christ and disposers of the secretes of God.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
In Context
2Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.
Cross References
Matthew 24:45If there be any faithfull servaut and wyse whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve the meate in season convenient:
Luke 8:10And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.
Luke 16:1And he sayd also vnto his disciples. Ther was a certayne rych man which had a stewarde that was acused vnto him that he had wasted his goodes.
1 Corinthians 2:7but we speake the wysdome of God which is in secrete and lieth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory:
1 Corinthians 4:13We are evyll spoken of and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde the ofscowringe of all thinges even vnto this tyme.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we preache not oure selves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde and oure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:1
In this chapter the apostle, I. Directs them how to account of him and his fellow-ministers, and therein, tacitly at least, reproves them for their unworthy carriage towards him, ver. 1-6 . II. He cautions them against pride and self-elation, and hints at the many temptations they had to conceive too highly of themselves, and despise him and other apostles, because of the great diversity in their circumstances and condition, ver. 7-13 . III. He challenges their regard to him as their father in Christ, ver. 14-16 .… Read the whole commentary →