For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
1 Corinthians 4:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For 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? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For who separates you from the others [as a faction leader]? [Who makes you superior and sets you apart from another, giving you the preeminence?] What have you that was not given to you? If then you received it [from someone], why do you boast as if you had not received [but had gained it by your own efforts]? American Standard Version (1901) For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? Common English Bible Who says that you are better than anyone else? What do you have that you didn’t receive? And if you received it, then why are you bragging as if you didn’t receive it? Catholic Public Domain Version For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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? |
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Speak to him and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster , lying in the middle of his Nile, who says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’
Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens. The vessels from his house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in his hand and who controls the whole course of your life. ,
He called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas, and told them, “Engage in business until I come back.”
John responded, ‘No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles, ,
For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.
According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts: If prophecy, use it according to the proportion of one’s faith;
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven , leavens the whole batch of dough?
I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one person has this gift, another has that.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.