1 Corinthians 4:7

Paul asks who made them superior and points out that everything they have was received as a gift, so boasting is groundless. It matters because grace leaves no room for pride.

Cross-references · 29

• John 3:27John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
• Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• 1 Pet 4:10As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
• 1 Chr 29:11–16Yours, 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.
• Rom 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;
• John 1:16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
• Prov 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
• Luke 19:13Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.
• 1 Tim 1:12–15I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, that He considered me faithful and appointed me to service.
• Ezek 28:2–5“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.
• 1 Cor 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.
• 2 Chr 32:23–29Many 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.
• Rom 9:16–18So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
• 1 Cor 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.
• Titus 3:3–7For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• 2 Th 2:12–14in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
• Dan 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.
• Dan 4:30–32the 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?”
• 1 Cor 12:4–11There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
• Rom 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.
• Ezek 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.’
• Rom 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.
• Dan 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
• Eph 3:3–5that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.
• Acts 12:22–23And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
• 1 Cor 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.
• 2 Chr 1:7–12That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
• Matt 25:14–15For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

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