1 Corinthians 4:10

New American Bible - revised edition

We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

Cross References

2 Kings 9:11

When Jehu rejoined his master’s servants, they asked him, “Is all well? Why did that madman come to you?” He replied, “You know that kind of man and his talk.”

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever reviles a neighbor lacks sense, but the intelligent keep silent.

Isaiah 53:3

He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Hosea 9:7

They have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.

Luke 10:16

Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.” Return of the Seventy-two.

Luke 18:9

He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

Acts 17:18

Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers engaged him in discussion. Some asked, “What is this scavenger trying to say?” Others said, “He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities,” because he was preaching about ‘Jesus’ and ‘Resurrection.’

Acts 17:32

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We should like to hear you on this some other time.”

Acts 26:24

While Paul was so speaking in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, “You are mad, Paul; much learning is driving you mad.”

Acts 9:16

and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.”

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:25

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. The Corinthians and Paul.

1 Corinthians 10:12

Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.

1 Corinthians 2:3

I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now,

1 Corinthians 4:8

You are already satisfied; you have already grown rich; you have become kings without us! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we also might become kings with you.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For someone will say, “His letters are severe and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

2 Corinthians 11:19

For you gladly put up with fools, since you are wise yourselves.

2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led to sin, and I am not indignant? Paul’s Boast: His Weakness.

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement.

2 Corinthians 4:12

So death is at work in us, but life in you.

2 Corinthians 6:8

through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore, whoever disregards this, disregards not a human being but God, who [also] gives his holy Spirit to you. Mutual Charity.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.