1 Coríntios 4

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1 Coríntios 4:1

Paul says this because some of the Corinthians were denigrating him. He did not preach anything different from the apostles. By calling himself a servant of Christ and a steward of the mysteries of God, Paul implicitly points out who the false apostles are. He denies that what they preach is of Christ, because it is not in accord with apostolic tradition. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:3

It is obvious that Paul was not worried about himself because he had a clear conscience. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:5

God will judge in his own good time. A judge is insulted if a servant presumes to pronounce a verdict before the judge makes the decision known. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:7

Paul wrote this to people who thought that it was better to be baptized by some people rather than by others, who had been led astray by their eloquence and who by some trick believed that perverse teachings were right. In fact, everything these people had they had received from the apostle. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:10

Those who love Christ are fools as far as the world is concerned. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:14

Paul is acting here like a good physician who alleviates the pain caused by his operation to remove the disease, so that the sick person will let himself be cured. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:15

Paul is telling the Corinthians that nobody else will ever love them the way he does. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:16

Paul wants them to be imitators of him in these things, so that just as he has endured many hardships from unbelievers for their salvation and is still doing so as long as he preaches the free gift of God's grace day and night, so they too ought to remain in his faith and doctrine and not accept the evil teachings of false apostles. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:18

Some of the Corinthians were angry that Paul had not come to them, not because they wanted him to but because they were proud and imagined that Paul thought they were unworthy of a visit. In fact, Paul wanted to go but had more important things to do. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

1 Coríntios 4:19

Paul couches his promise to come in the will of God, because God knows more than man. If there was some advantage in Paul's going to Corinth, God would make it known, and if he did not turn up, the Corinthians would know that the Lord had not wanted him to. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES