Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Corinthians 4:4, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- 1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
- Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, …
- Psalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whe…
- Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 27:6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the c…
- Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may beco…
More to meet God in 1 Corinthians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.