1 Corinthians 4:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ [^LFor] Who ·says you are better than others [made you so important; or sees anything different in you]? What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given to you, why do you ·brag [boast] as if you did not ·receive it as a gift [^Lreceive it]?

⁸ ·You think you already have everything you need [^LAlready you have been satisfied/filled up!; ^Cthe Corinthians believed they had reached a higher spiritual status because of their wisdom]. ·You think you are rich [^LAlready you are rich!]. You ·think you have become kings [have begun to reign…!] without us. I wish you really were ·kings [reigning] so we could ·be kings [reign] together with you. ⁹ But it seems to me that God has put us apostles ·in last place [or on display at the end of the procession], like those sentenced to die [^Cthe image is of prisoners of war being led through the city in disgrace, condemned to die in the arena]. We are like a ·show [spectacle; display] for the whole world to see—angels and people.