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Let an Adam regard us in this way: as servants of the Anointed and stewards of the mysteries of Elohim.
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Now beyond this, it is required of stewards that one be found faithful.
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But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human tribunal. Indeed, I do not even judge myself.
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For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet by this I am not made righteous. The One who judges me is Yahuah.
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time, until the Master comes, who shall both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the purposes of hearts. Then each one shall have his praise from Elohim.
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Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that through us you might learn not to go beyond what is written, so that none of you may be puffed up for one against another.
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For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?
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Already you are satisfied. Already you became rich. Without us you began reigning. And I wish you truly did reign, so that we also might reign with you.
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For I think Elohim displayed us, the emissaries, last, as men condemned to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and to Adam.
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We are fools because of the Anointed, but you are wise in the Anointed. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
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To this present hour we hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless,
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and we labor, working with our own hands. When insulted, we bless. When persecuted, we endure.
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When slandered, we answer gently. We have become like refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
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I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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For even if you have ten thousand guardians in the Anointed, you do not have many fathers, for in Yahushua the Anointed I became your father through the Besorah.
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Therefore I urge you: be imitators of me.
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Because of this I sent to you Timotheos, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Master. He shall remind you of my ways in the Anointed, just as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
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Now some have become puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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But I shall come to you soon, if the Master wills, and I shall know not the speech of those puffed up, but their power.
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For the Kingdom of Elohim is not in speech, but in power.
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What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a ruach of gentleness?