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1 Cor. 4:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.

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are fools.

1 Cor. 1:1‑3,18‑20,26‑28• ¹Paul, a called a apostle of Christ Jesus b by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,
²to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, c [persons] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirs and ours;
³grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁸For the word of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to us that are to be saved it is God's power.
¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
²⁶For look at your calling, brethren, that not many [are] wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.
²⁷But the foolish things of the world God chose that he might put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God chose that he might put to shame the strong things;
²⁸and the low-born things of the world and those despised God chose, [and] the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are, (1 Cor. 1:1‑3,18‑20,26‑28)

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1 Cor. 2:3,14• ³And I in weakness and in fear and in much trembling was with you;
¹⁴But [the] natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually examined; (1 Cor. 2:3,14)

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1 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸Let none deceive himself; if anyone thinketh himself to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish that he may be wise. (1 Cor. 3:18)

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2 Kings 9:11• (2 Kings 9:11)

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Hos. 9:7• (Hos. 9:7)

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Acts 17:18,32• ¹⁸And certain also of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this babbler say? and others, He seemeth to be an announcer of strange divinities, because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
³²Now when they heard of resurrection of dead [men] some mocked, but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again. (Acts 17:18,32)

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Acts 26:24• ²⁴And as he thus defended himself, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad: much learning doth turn thee to madness. (Acts 26:24)

for.

Matt. 5:11• ¹¹Blessed are ye when they shall reproach and persecute you, and falsely say every wicked word against you for my sake. (Matt. 5:11)

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Matt. 10:22‑25• ²²{i}and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, he shall be saved.{/i}
²³{i}But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.{/i}
²⁴{i}The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman above his lord.{/i}
²⁵{i}[It is] sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?{/i} (Matt. 10:22‑25)

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Matt. 24:9• ⁹Then shall they give you up to tribulation and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated by all the nations for my name's sake. (Matt. 24:9)

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Luke 6:22• ²²Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake. (Luke 6:22)

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Acts 9:16• ¹⁶for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake. (Acts 9:16)

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1 Peter 4:14• ¹⁴If ye are reproached in Christ's name, blessed [are ye], because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified]. (1 Peter 4:14)

are wise.

1 Cor. 4:8• ⁸Already ye are filled, already ye have been enriched, apart from us ye reigned; and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. (1 Cor. 4:8)

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1 Cor. 10:14‑15• ¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
¹⁵I speak as to prudent [men]: judge ye what I say. (1 Cor. 10:14‑15)

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Jer. 8:8‑9• (Jer. 8:8‑9)

we are weak.

1 Cor. 2:3• ³And I in weakness and in fear and in much trembling was with you; (1 Cor. 2:3)

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2 Cor. 10:10• ¹⁰because his letters, saith one, [are] weighty and strong, but the presence of the body weak and the speech contemptible. (2 Cor. 10:10)

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2 Cor. 11:29• ²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not? (2 Cor. 11:29)

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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• ⁹and he hath said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for [my] power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest on me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2 Cor. 12:9‑10)

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2 Cor. 13:3‑4,9• ³Since ye seek a proof of the Christ speaking in me (who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you,
⁴for although he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth by God's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but shall live with him by God's power toward you),
⁹For we rejoice when we are weak and ye are strong: this also we pray for, your perfecting. (2 Cor. 13:3‑4,9)

but ye.

1 Cor. 3:2• ²With milk I gave you drink, not meat; for ye were not yet able, nor indeed are ye now able, (1 Cor. 3:2)

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1 Cor. 10:12• ¹²So then let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor. 10:12)

but we.

Prov. 11:12• (Prov. 11:12)

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Isa. 53:3• (Isa. 53:3)

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Luke 10:16• ¹⁶He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me. (Luke 10:16)

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Luke 18:9• ⁹And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of them], this parable: (Luke 18:9)

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1 Thess. 4:8• ⁸Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you. (1 Thess. 4:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

*We* are fools for Christ’s sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.

W. Kelly Translation

we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.