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1 Corinthians 4:8

First Nations Version

You think you need nothing more. You think you are well-to-do. You think you have become grand chiefs with no help from any of us! How I wish you really were. Then we could serve together as chiefs.

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You have made them chiefs of a sacred nation of holy men and women who will give guidance to all the earth as they represent the good road of the Great Spirit.”


The people who see themselves as something when they are nothing have become their own trickster.


So if our being weak means that you are strong, it makes our hearts glad. It is our prayer that you will become strong and mature followers of the Chosen One.


You have become prideful. This is not good. Do you not know that just a little yeast will spread through the whole lump of bread dough?


He has blessed you with the right words to speak and a deep understanding of all things.


Because Creator, in his great kindness, has made me a message bearer, I give this message to each of you. Do not think too highly of yourself. Instead, understand that the Great Spirit calls us to different purposes in answer to our trust in him.


“Sorrow and trouble will be the end of you who eat your fill now. You will go hungry later. “Sorrow and trouble will be the end of you who are laughing about this now, for your own trail of tears is coming.


The reason for this is that you say, ‘I have acquired great possessions, more than I could ever need.’ But you cannot see that you are to be pitied, for spiritually you are full of misery—poor and blind and naked.


My much-loved family, you have always followed my guidance, not only when I was with you but much more now that I am away. So then, with great respect, you must walk the path Creator has given you for being set free and made whole.


Whatever happens, you should walk in a manner that brings honor to the good story about the Chosen One. In this way, whether or not I come to see you, I will hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, having one purpose, and struggling together to hold true to the good story in which we have put our trust.


Since you have already been patient with me, I hope you will put up with my boasting a little longer.


There are some of you who have become puffed up, thinking I will not come face to face with you.


“I pray to the Great Spirit that, whether in a short time or long, all who hear me today would become as I am—except for these chains.”


When Creator Sets Free (Jesus) saw this great crowd, he went back up into the mountainside and sat down to teach the people. His followers came to him there,





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