1 Corinthians 4:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:3

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;

Acts 26:24

When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane."

Acts 17:18

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

1 Peter 4:14

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

2 Corinthians 13:9

I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

2 Corinthians 11:19

You put up with fools so readily, you who know so much!

2 Corinthians 10:10

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

1 Corinthians 10:12

So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.

1 Corinthians 4:8

You Corinthians have your heart's desire already, have you? You have heaven's rich bliss already! You have come into your kingdom without us! I wish indeed you had come into your kingdom, so that we could share it with you!

1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

Acts 17:32

But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

Acts 9:16

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

Luke 18:9

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

Luke 10:16

He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

Matthew 24:9

Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:25

For the 'foolishness' of God is wiser than men, and the 'weakness' of God is stronger than men.

2 Corinthians 6:8

amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

2 Corinthians 4:12

In me then death is active, in you life.