We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised. Treasury of Scripture are fools. 1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, *etc: 1 Corinthians 1:18-20,26-28 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God... 1 Corinthians 2:3,14 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling... 1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you?... Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad... Acts 17:18,32 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some... Acts 26:24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are beside yourself; much learning does make you mad. for. Matthew 5:11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Matthew 10:22-25 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved... Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. Luke 6:22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you... Acts 9:16 For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. 1 Peter 4:14 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests on you... are wise. 1 Corinthians 4:8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign... 1 Corinthians 10:14,15 Why, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry... Jeremiah 8:8,9 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? See, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain... we are weak. 1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness... 2 Corinthians 13:3,4,9 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you... but ye. 1 Corinthians 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for till now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able. 1 Corinthians 10:12 Why let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. but we. Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace. Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him... Luke 10:16 He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me. Luke 18:9 And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit.
Context Do Not Be Proud
6And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 7For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it? 8Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. 10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised. 11Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; 12And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 13Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
Douay-Rheims Bible
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.
Darby Bible Translation
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.
King James Bible
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
Young's Literal Translation
we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
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