1 Corintios 4:6

6 Amados hermanos, puse el caso de Apolos y el mío propio como ilustración de lo que les vengo diciendo. Si prestan atención a lo que les cité de las Escrituras,
no estarán orgullosos de uno de sus líderes a costa de otro.

1 Corintios 4:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:6

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred,
&c.] Not what he had said concerning the different factions at Corinth, one being for Paul, and another for Apollos, and another for Cephas, as if these several parties did not really go by those names, but by those of others, the false teachers; only the apostle, to decline everything that looked like reflection, put these, as the Syriac version renders it, "upon" his own "person", and Apollos's, the sooner and better to put an end to such divisions; for it is certain, from his way of arguing and reasoning, that these are not fictitious names, but they were really divided, and were quarrelling among themselves about himself, Apollos, and Cephas: but his meaning is, when he says,

I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos
these things; that he had "brought these comparisons", as the Arabic version reads it, concerning himself and Apollos; namely, that one was a planter, and another a waterer; that they were both labourers and builders, ministers or servants, and stewards: and these similes, and such a figurative way of speaking he had made use of, as he says,

for your sakes;
for the sake of the members of this church, that they might have right notions of them, and accordingly account of them, and behave towards them: or, as he adds,

that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is
written:
meaning, either in the word of God in general; or in some particular passages of Scripture he might have respect to; or rather in the above places in this, and the foregoing chapter, where he gives the fore mentioned characters of ministers; where, in the apostles themselves, in their own words, from their own account, they might learn, on the one hand, not to ascribe too much to them, nor, on the other hand, to detract from their just character and usefulness: and also,

that no one of you be puffed up for one against the other;
speak great swelling words of vanity, and envy, for one minister against another; when they are all one, bear the same character, are in the same office, and are jointly concerned in the same common cause of Christ and the good of immortal souls.

1 Corintios 4:6 In-Context

4 Tengo la conciencia limpia, pero eso no demuestra que yo tenga razón. Es el Señor mismo quien me evaluará y tomará la decisión.

5 Así que no juzguen a nadie antes de tiempo, es decir, antes de que el Señor vuelva. Pues él sacará a la luz nuestros secretos más oscuros y revelará nuestras intenciones más íntimas. Entonces Dios le dará a cada uno el reconocimiento que le corresponda.

6 Amados hermanos, puse el caso de Apolos y el mío propio como ilustración de lo que les vengo diciendo. Si prestan atención a lo que les cité de las Escrituras,
no estarán orgullosos de uno de sus líderes a costa de otro.

7 Pues, ¿qué derecho tienen a juzgar así? ¿Qué tienen que Dios no les haya dado? Y si todo lo que tienen proviene de Dios, ¿por qué se jactan como si no fuera un regalo?

8 Ustedes piensan que ya tienen todo lo que necesitan. Creen que ya son ricos. ¡Hasta han comenzado a reinar sin nosotros en el reino de Dios! Yo desearía que en verdad ya estuvieran reinando, porque entonces nosotros estaríamos reinando con ustedes.