1 Corinthians 4:6

Paul has used himself and Apollos as examples so the Corinthians would learn not to go beyond Scripture or take pride in favorite leaders. It matters because Scripture, not human preference, sets the bounds of Christian thinking.

Cross-references · 32

• 2 Cor 11:4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
• 2 Cor 12:19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
• 2 Cor 12:6For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
• Col 2:18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• John 3:26–27They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
• 2 Cor 4:15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
• 1 Cor 9:23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 1:31that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• 1 Cor 3:21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
• 2 Cor 10:7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also we are Christ’s.
• 1 Cor 3:4–7For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
• 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• Ps 8:4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
• 2 Cor 10:15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
• 1 Cor 1:12Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
• Jer 17:5–6Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• 2 Cor 10:12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
• Num 11:28–29Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
• Matt 23:8–10But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• 1 Cor 1:19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
• Job 11:11–12For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
• 1 Cor 5:2You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
• 1 Cor 4:18–19Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
• Isa 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 2 Cor 11:12–15But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
• Ps 146:3Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
• 1 Cor 13:4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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