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1 Corinthians 1:4-8

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

    that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

    even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

    so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

    who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    I thanke my God all wayes on youre behalfe for the grace of God which is geuen you by Iesus Christ

    that in all thinges ye are made riche by him in all lerninge and in all knowledge

    even as the testimony of Iesus Christ was confermed in you

    so that ye are behynde in no gyft and wayte for the apperynge of oure lorde Iesus Christ

    which shall streght you vnto the ende that ye maye be blamelesse in the daye of oure lorde Iesus Christ.

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  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God, which is giuen you in Iesus Christ,

    That in all things ye are made rich in him, in all kinde of speach, and in all knowledge:

    As the testimonie of Iesus Christ hath bene confirmed in you:

    So that ye are not destitute of any gift: wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ.

    Who shall also confirme you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse, in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (v8) May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our…
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:13 (v8) to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Colossians 1:22 (v8) yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
  • Philippians 1:6 (v8) being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
  • Jude 1:24-25 (v8) Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, to God our…
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  • 2 Thessalonians 3:3 (v8) But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
  • Ephesians 5:27 (v8) that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and…
  • 2 Corinthians 9:11 (v5) you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
  • 2 Corinthians 8:7 (v5) But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this…
  • Colossians 2:3 (v5) in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
  • Romans 16:25 (v8)
  • 1 Peter 5:10 (v8) But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect,…
  • Romans 1:8 (v4) First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • Philippians 1:9 (v5) This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
  • Philippians 1:10 (v8) so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
  • Philippians 2:15-16 (v8) that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom…
  • Philippians 3:20 (v7) For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Psalms 37:28 (v8) For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • 2 Peter 3:12 (v7) looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements…
  • Romans 14:4 (v8) Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him…
  • Romans 15:14 (v5) I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to…
  • 2 Peter 3:14 (v8) Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
  • 1 Corinthians 12:8 (v5) For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
  • 2 Timothy 1:8 (v6) Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the…
  • Hebrews 9:28 (v7) so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting…
  • James 3:13 (v5) Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
  • 1 John 3:2 (v7) Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for…
  • Revelation 1:2 (v6) who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:21 (v8) Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
  • Ephesians 1:17 (v5) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
  • Ephesians 6:19 (v5) on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
  • Colossians 3:10 (v5) and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • 1 Timothy 2:6 (v6) who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
  • 2 Peter 3:10 (v8) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be…
  • 2 Peter 3:18 (v5) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Psalms 37:17 (v8) For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
  • Luke 17:30 (v7) It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
  • John 14:26 (v4) But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said…
  • Romans 8:19 (v7) For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
  • 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (v6) When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I…
  • Ephesians 3:8 (v5) To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Titus 2:13 (v7) looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Peter 4:13 (v7) But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
  • Jude 1:21 (v7) Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
  • John 14:14 (v4) If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
  • John 14:16 (v4) I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
  • John 15:26 (v4) “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify…
  • Acts 20:24 (v6) But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I…
  • Romans 6:17 (v4) But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you…
  • Romans 11:12 (v5) Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
  • Romans 15:19 (v6) in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully…
  • 1 Corinthians 13:2 (v5) If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t…
  • 2 Corinthians 1:14 (v8) as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:12 (v6) Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
  • Ephesians 2:7 (v5) that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
  • Colossians 1:9-10 (v5) For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the…
  • 1 Timothy 1:14 (v4) The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Revelation 19:10 (v6) I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers…
  • Mark 16:20 (v6) They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
  • John 10:30 (v4) I and the Father are one.”
  • Acts 2:4 (v5) They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
  • Acts 11:23 (v4) who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to…
  • Acts 18:5 (v6) But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
  • Acts 20:21 (v6) testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 22:18 (v6) and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
  • Acts 23:11 (v6) The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify…
  • Acts 28:23 (v6) When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and…
  • 1 Corinthians 1:3 (v4) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:11 (v5) And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:8 (v5) Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where…
  • 1 Corinthians 14:5-6 (v5) Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who…
  • 1 Corinthians 14:26 (v5) What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or…
  • 2 Corinthians 4:6 (v5) seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory…
  • Galatians 3:5 (v6) He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:10 (v6) when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you…
  • Hebrews 2:3-4 (v6) how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those…
  • Hebrews 10:36-37 (v7) For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. “In a very little while, he who comes will come,…
  • James 5:7-8 (v7) Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient…
  • 1 Peter 1:13 (v7) Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of…
  • 1 Peter 5:4 (v7) When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
  • Revelation 12:17 (v6) The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’…
  • Genesis 49:18 (v7) I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
  • Matthew 25:1 (v7) “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  • Luke 12:36 (v7) Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to…
  • Luke 17:24 (v8) for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his…
  • Acts 11:21 (v6) The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
  • Romans 15:4 (v5) For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the…
  • 1 Corinthians 4:7-10 (v5) For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not…
  • 1 Corinthians 5:5 (v8) are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Corinthians 12:10 (v5) and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of…
  • 2 Corinthians 12:13 (v7) For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you?…
  • Colossians 3:4 (v7) When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
  • 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (v7) and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:7 (v7) and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
  • 1 Timothy 6:14-15 (v7) that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in its own times he will show,…
  • 2 Timothy 4:8 (v7) From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to…
  • 1 John 5:11-13 (v6) The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have…
  • Revelation 1:9 (v6) I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called…
  • Revelation 6:9 (v6) When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony…
  • Revelation 12:11 (v6) They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv4, 6, 7, 8 4. I give thanks to my God. Having in…

4. I give thanks to my God. Having in the salutation secured for himself authority from the station assigned him, he now endeavors to procure favor for his doctrine, by expressing his affection for them. In this way he soothes their minds beforehand, that they may listen patiently to his reproofs. He persuades them of his affection for them by the following tokens — his discovering as much joy in the benefits bestowed upon them, as if they had been conferred upon himself; and his declaring that he entertains a favorable opinion of them, and has good hopes of them as to the future. Farther, he qualifies his congratulations in such a way as to give them no occasion to be puffed up, as he traces up to God all the benefits that they possessed, that the entire praise may redound to him, inasmuch as they are the fruits of his grace. It is as though he had said — “I congratulate you indeed, but it is in such a way as to ascribe the praise to God.” His meaning, when he calls God his God, I have explained in my Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans (Romans 1:8.) As Paul was not prepared to flatter the Corinthians, so neither has he commended them on false grounds. For although all were not worthy of such commendations, and though they corrupted many excellent gifts of God by ambition, yet the gifts themselves it became him not to despise, because they were, in themselves, deserving of commendation. Farther, as the gifts of the Spirit are conferred for the edification of all, it is with good reason that he enumerates them as gifts common to the whole Church. But let us see what he commends in them.

For the grace, etc. This is a general term, for it comprehends blessings of every kind that they had obtained through means of the gospel. For the term grace denotes here not the favor of God, but by metonymy (μετωνυμικῶς), the gifts that he bestows upon men gratuitously. He immediately proceeds to specify particular instances, when he says that they are enriched in all things, and specifies what those all things are — the doctrine and word of God. For in these riches it becomes Christians to abound; and they ought also to be esteemed by us the more, and regarded by us as so much the more valuable, in proportion as they are ordinarily slighted. The phrase in ipso (in him) I have preferred to retain, rather than render it per ipsum (by him,) because it has in my opinion more expressiveness and force. For we are enriched in Christ, inasmuch as we are members of his body, and are engrafted into him: nay more, being made one with him, he makes us share with him in everything that he has received from the Father.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Going about to condemn many vices, he beginneth with…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv4–8 4 I thank my God always on your behalf,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Lest his former salutation should be misapprehended by them,…
William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain On v4 As if the apostle had said, "I am very…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv5, 6, 8 That in everything ye are enriched by him,.... This…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Always - Whenever I mention you to God in…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Verse 4. For the grace - which is given…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv4–8 I thank my God ... - No small part…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv4–6 That is given you in, or by Christ Jesus.[1]…
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures 1864 · Public Domain On v4 II. Gratitude and hope in respect to their Christian…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv4–8 He puts the causes for praise and hope among…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Gratulatory Exordium, 1Co_1:4-9.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv4–8 4. the grace of God which is given you…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv4–8 (4) I thank my God.—Expressions of thankfulness (1Co_1:4-9), serving…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv4–8 Vers. 4-9. The thanksgiving. The thanksgiving is a feature…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv4, 7 I thank my God … for the grace of…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain On vv4–8 4–9. I thank my God always on your behalf.…
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain On vv4, 5, 6, 8 4. Here he gives thanks to God in their…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain On vv4–8 I thank my God always concerning you, for the…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On vv4, 7, 8 for the grace
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v4 The thanksgiving of the apostle:
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv4, 7 Connecting Statement:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv4, 5, 7, 8 1:4-9 Paul thanks God for the spiritual gifts he…
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