1 Corinthians 4:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

1 Corinthians 4:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 7:24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians 3:13
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Topics

Bigotry Censoriousness Charitableness Criticism, Unjust Decision Fault Finding Judging Misjudgment

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Here, I. The apostle challenges the respect due to him on account of his character and office, in which many among them had at least very much failed: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God (1 Cor. 4:1), though possibly others might have valued them too highly, by setting him up as the head of a party, and professing to be his disciples. In o…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. it is a very small thing--literally, “it amounts to a very small matter”; not that I despise your judgment, but as compared with God’s, it almost comes to nothing. judged ... of man’s judgment--literally, “man’s day,” contrasted with the day (1Co 3:13) of the Lord (1Co 4:5; 1Th 5:4). “The day of man” is here put before us as a person [Wahl]. All days previous to the day of the Lord are man’s da…