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 are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
• Gal 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• 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 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 1:5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
• Luke 6:25Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• Rom 12:15–16Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
• Rev 5:10and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
• 1 Th 2:19–20For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
• Luke 1:51–53He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• 1 Cor 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
• Num 11:29Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
• 1 Th 3:6–9But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
• 2 Cor 11:1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
• 2 Tim 2:11–12This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
• Acts 20:29–30For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• Jer 28:6even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
• Isa 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• 1 Cor 3:1–2Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
• Ps 122:5–9For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Prov 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
• Acts 26:29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
• Phil 2:12So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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