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Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"
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For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
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Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
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I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
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So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
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whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
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and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
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For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
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But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
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I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
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For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
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That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
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For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
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Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
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But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
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but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
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(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
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and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
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They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.
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But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
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For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
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And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
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To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Comparer 2Corinthiens 11.1, note ; 2Corinthiens 11.16-18, notes verset 1.
- L'apôtre s'arrête, et, après tout ce qu'il a dit dans ces deux chapitres pour justifier son ministère, il revient au sentiment de l'imprudence ou de la folie qu'il a déjà plusieurs fois exprimé ; ici, il le fait, comme auparavant, avec le sérieux de la conscience et l'ironie pleine de tristesse que lui inspire la conduite de ses lecteurs. Eux-mêmes l'ont contraint à se glorifier, tandis qu'ils auraient dû le recommander auprès de ses adversaires qui l'accusaient.
Ici, comme à 2Corinthiens 11.5, ces apôtres par excellence ne sont pas les apôtres de Jésus-Christ, Pierre, Jacques, Jean, mais ceux qui, à Corinthe, se donnaient comme tels. Paul en disant, non sans ironie, qu'il ne leur a point été inférieur par son ministère, donne à entendre beaucoup plus. Et pourtant, dans sa vraie et profonde humilité personnelle, il confesse qu'il n'est rien ! (Comparer 1Corinthiens 15.8-10)
Ce texte nous rapporte un exemple du comportement de l'apôtre et de ses intentions bienveillantes, à l’égard des Corinthiens ; ceci nous permet de voir le type parfait du fidèle serviteur de Dieu, au service de l'Évangile. La devise et le but de Paul, consistaient à exercer la bonté.
Remarquons dans ce passage, la présence commune de plusieurs péchés parmi ceux qui professaient la piété. Les chutes et les méfaits abaissent un ministre de l'Évangile ; Dieu utilise parfois ce procédé pour humilier les orgueilleux.
Ces différents versets montrent à quel point les « excès » de ces faux docteurs ont égaré leurs adeptes. Qu’il est douloureux de constater de tels maux parmi ceux qui enseignent l'Évangile ! Il en est hélas encore ainsi, comme ce fut le cas, trop souvent, du temps des apôtres...