1 Corinthians 4:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?”
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“For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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?”
King James Version · Public Domain“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?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 4:7 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- 2 Chronicles 1:7That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
- 2 Chronicles 32:23Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.
- Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
- Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Daniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- Matthew 25:14For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
- Luke 19:13Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.
- John 1:16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- John 3:27John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
- Acts 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- Romans 1:5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
- Romans 9:16So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
- Romans 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
- Romans 12:6We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;
- 1 Corinthians 3:5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- 1 Corinthians 7:7I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
- 1 Corinthians 12:4There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
- Ephesians 3:3that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.
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