1 Corinthians 4:7

New English Translation

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Cross References

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Ezekiel 29:3

Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Luke 19:13

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

John 1:16

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

John 3:27

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Romans 1:5

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

Romans 12:6

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them – yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 7:7

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

James 1:17

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

1 Peter 4:10

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.