2 Corinthians 4:5

Paul preaches not himself but Christ Jesus as Lord, presenting himself as a servant to others for Jesus' sake. The message centers on Christ, not the messenger.

Cross-references · 38

• 2 Cor 1:24Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
• 1 Th 2:5–6For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
• 1 Cor 1:23but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Phil 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
• 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.
• 1 Cor 1:13–15Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
• 1 Cor 9:19–23For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• Titus 1:11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• 1 Cor 3:5–6Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• Rom 15:1–2Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• 1 Cor 12:3Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 8:9–10But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
• 1 Pet 5:2–5Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
• John 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
• John 3:27–31John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
• Matt 3:11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 23:8But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• John 1:21–23They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
• 1 Cor 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
• Acts 3:12–13When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
• Luke 22:25–26He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’
• Matt 20:25–27But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
• Acts 14:11–15When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
• Rom 15:17–18I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
• 1 Cor 8:6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
• Acts 10:25–26When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
• Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
• John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• Acts 2:36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
• Rom 14:8–9For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
• Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• 2 Cor 1:19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
• 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

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