1Cor 4:1 Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:1

1: So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God's secrets.

1 Peter 4:10

  1. God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you.

1 Timothy 3:9

  1. They must be committed to the revealed truths of the Christian faith and must live with a clear conscience.

Titus 1:7

  1. An elder must live a blameless life because he is God's minister. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered; he must not be a heavy drinker, violent, or greedy for money.

Romans 16:25

  1. God is able to make you strong, just as the Good News says. It is the message about Jesus Christ and his plan for you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of time.

Colossians 1:25

  1. God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his message in all its fullness to you Gentiles.
  2. This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to his own holy people.
  3. For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory.

2 Corinthians 4:5

  1. We don't go around preaching about ourselves; we preach Christ Jesus, the Lord. All we say about ourselves is that we are your servants because of what Jesus has done for us.

Ephesians 6:19

  1. And pray for me, too. Ask God to give me the right words as I boldly explain God's secret plan that the Good News is for the Gentiles, too.

1 Corinthians 9:16

  1. For preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn't do it!
  2. If I were doing this of my own free will, then I would deserve payment. But God has chosen me and given me this sacred trust, and I have no choice.
  3. What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.

2 Corinthians 12:6

  1. I have plenty to boast about and would be no fool in doing it, because I would be telling the truth. But I won't do it. I don't want anyone to think more highly of me than what they can actually see in my life and my message,

Colossians 2:2

  1. My goal is that they will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have full confidence because they have complete understanding of God's secret plan, which is Christ himself.

Colossians 4:3

  1. Don't forget to pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to preach about his secret plan--that Christ is also for you Gentiles. That is why I am here in chains.

Matthew 24:45

  1. "Who is a faithful, sensible servant, to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family?

1 Timothy 3:16

  1. Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ appeared in the flesh and was shown to be righteous by the Spirit. He was seen by angels and was announced to the nations. He was believed on in the world and was taken up into heaven.

Mark 4:11

  1. He replied, "You are permitted to understand the secret about the Kingdom of God. But I am using these stories to conceal everything about it from outsiders,

1 Corinthians 4:13

  1. We respond gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world's garbage, like everybody's trash--right up to the present moment.

Ephesians 1:9

  1. God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure.

Luke 16:1

  1. Jesus told this story to his disciples: "A rich man hired a manager to handle his affairs, but soon a rumor went around that the manager was thoroughly dishonest.
  2. So his employer called him in and said, 'What's this I hear about your stealing from me? Get your report in order, because you are going to be dismissed.'
  3. "The manager thought to himself, 'Now what? I'm through here, and I don't have the strength to go out and dig ditches, and I'm too proud to beg.

1 Corinthians 2:7

  1. No, the wisdom we speak of is the secret wisdom of God, which was hidden in former times, though he made it for our benefit before the world began.

1 Corinthians 3:5

  1. Who is Apollos, and who is Paul, that we should be the cause of such quarrels? Why, we're only servants. Through us God caused you to believe. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.

Ephesians 3:3

  1. As I briefly mentioned earlier in this letter, God himself revealed his secret plan to me.
  2. As you read what I have written, you will understand what I know about this plan regarding Christ.
  3. God did not reveal it to previous generations, but now he has revealed it by the Holy Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.
  4. And this is the secret plan: The Gentiles have an equal share with the Jews in all the riches inherited by God's children. Both groups have believed the Good News, and both are part of the same body and enjoy together the promise of blessings through Christ Jesus.
  5. By God's special favor and mighty power, I have been given the wonderful privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.

2 Corinthians 11:23

  1. They say they serve Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in jail more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again.

Matthew 13:11

  1. Then he explained to them, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others have not.

2 Corinthians 6:4

  1. In everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.

1 Timothy 3:6

  1. An elder must not be a new Christian, because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and the Devil will use that pride to make him fall.

Luke 8:10

  1. He replied, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I am using these stories to conceal everything about it from outsiders, so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: 'They see what I do, but they don't really see; they hear what I say, but they don't understand.'

Luke 12:42

  1. And the Lord replied, "I'm talking to any faithful, sensible servant to whom the master gives the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family.
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