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Now these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to go beyond (A)what is written, so that no one of you will (B)become puffed up (C)on behalf of one against the other. For who regards you as superior? (D)What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You are (E)already filled, you have already become rich, you have ruled without us—and how I wish that you had ruled indeed so that we also might rule with you.

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Dear brothers and sisters,[a] I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying. If you pay attention to what I have quoted from the Scriptures,[b] you won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another. For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?

You think you already have everything you need. You think you are already rich. You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom without us! I wish you really were reigning already, for then we would be reigning with you.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6a Greek Brothers.
  2. 4:6b Or If you learn not to go beyond “what is written.”