1 Corinthians 4:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ For who makes you to differ? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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?

1 Corinthians 4:7 Cross References

Proverbs 2:6

For יהוה  gives wisdom; Out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Ezekiel 29:3

“Speak, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.’

Daniel 5:18

“O sovereign, the Most High Elah gave Neḇ

Daniel 5:23

“And you have lifted yourself up against the Master of the heavens. And they brought before you the vessels of His house, and you and your great men, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them. And you have praised the elahin of silver, and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which neither see nor hear nor know. But the Elah who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not made great.

Luke 19:13

“And calling ten of his servants, He gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’

John 1:16

And out of His completeness we all did receive, and favour upon favour,

John 3:27

Yoḥ

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received favour and office of the emissary for belief-obedience among all the nations on behalf of His Name,

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the favour which has been given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he should think, but to think soberly, as Elohim has given to each a measure of belief.

Romans 12:6

Now having different gifts, according to the favour which was given to us, let us use them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of belief;

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the favour of Elohim I am what I am, and His favour toward me was not in vain, but I laboured much more than they all, yet not I, but the favour of Elohim with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos, and what is Sha’ul, but servants through whom you believed, as the Master assigned to each?

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?

1 Corinthians 7:7

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from Elohim, one in this way and another in that.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning.

1 Peter 4:10

As each one has received a gift, serve one another, as good trustees of the manifold favour of Elohim.