1 Corinthians 4:8

Paul mocks the Corinthians' smug sense that they have already 'arrived' spiritually, reigning as kings. It matters because believers still live in the 'not yet,' awaiting Christ's full kingdom.

Cross-references · 26

• Prov 13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
• Gal 6:3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 1:5That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
• Luke 6:25Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
• Rom 12:15–16Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
• Rev 5:10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
• 1 Th 2:19–20For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
• Luke 1:51–53He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• 1 Cor 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
• Num 11:29And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
• 1 Th 3:6–9But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
• 2 Cor 11:1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
• 2 Tim 2:11–12It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
• Acts 20:29–30For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• Rev 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• Jer 28:6Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
• Isa 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• 1 Cor 3:1–2And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
• Ps 122:5–9For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Prov 25:14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
• Acts 26:29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
• Phil 2:12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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