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 answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• 1 Pet 4:10As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
• 1 Chr 29:11–16Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
• Rom 12:6Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
• John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
• Prov 2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
• Luke 19:13He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
• 1 Tim 1:12–15And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
• Ezek 28:2–5Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 2 Chr 32:23–29Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
• Rom 9:16–18So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
• 1 Cor 7:7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
• Titus 3:3–7For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 2 Th 2:12–14that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Dan 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
• Dan 4:30–32The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• 1 Cor 12:4–11Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• Ezek 29:3Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
• 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.
• Dan 5:18You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
• Eph 3:3–5how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
• Acts 12:22–23The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• 2 Chr 1:7–12That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
• Matt 25:14–15“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

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