1. LET a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
2. Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.
3. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by man's day; but neither do I judge my own self.
4. For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.
5. Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.
6. But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.