1 Corinthians 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [You behave as if] you are already filled and think you have enough [you are full and content, feeling no need of anything more]! Already you have become rich [in spiritual gifts and graces]! [Without any counsel or instruction from us, in your conceit], you have ascended your thrones and come into your kingdom without including us! And would that it were true and that you did reign, so that we might be sharing the kingdom with you!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Common English Bible

⁸ You’ve been filled already! You’ve become rich already! You rule like kings without us! I wish you did rule so that we could be kings with you!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ So, now you have been filled, and now you have been made wealthy, as if to reign without us? But I wish that you would reign, so that we, too, might reign with you!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

1 Corinthians 4:8 Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor yet have great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight!

Jeremiah 28:6

and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord fulfill the words that you have prophesied and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles.

Numbers 11:29

But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!”

Matthew 5:1

When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.

Luke 6:25

“Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.

Acts 26:29

Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.”

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

1 Corinthians 1:5

for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind—

1 Corinthians 4:18

But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish you would put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, do put up with me!

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may be restored.

Galatians 6:3

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

Philippians 1:27

Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 5:10

you have made them a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.”