| Raniero Cantalamessa - 2002 - 232 str.
...leave us with no escape and make us go really deep in our search for truth. One of these phrases says: "What have you that you did not receive? If then you...received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?" (1 Cor 4:7). There is only one thing I did not receive, which is all mine and only mine, and that is... | |
| Gabriel Bunge, Michael J. Miller - 2002 - 228 str.
...so as not to give ourselves the praise and the honor and thus deny the gift. Therefore grace says: "If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift? Already you have become rich, " it says, 18 Basil, De Spirit» Sanaa XXVII, 66, 4-5 (Pruche). 19 Tit... | |
| Allen Verhey - 2002 - 546 str.
...were signs of "little faith." "What do you have that you did not receive?" Paul asked them. "And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?"(l Cor. 4:71. The spiritual enthusiasts in Corinth needed to be reminded that the gift of healing... | |
| Jeffrey J. Meyers - 2003 - 448 str.
...and inspired him. But, secondly, as the Apostle Paul said to the cocky Corinthians: "What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" (1 Cor. 4:7). I confess both truths. I am, of course, responsible for everything... | |
| 2003 - 706 str.
...another. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift? This is the word of the Lord. i Corinthians 4.1-7 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according... | |
| David Ray Griffin - 2004 - 352 str.
...believe that we, through the exercise of our freedom, contribute something to our salvation, Paul says: "What have you that you did not receive? If then you...received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?" (I Cor. 4:7.) If God does all things, the implication would be that God causes 31 those things which... | |
| Michael Green - 2004 - 354 str.
...were God's gifts to them. and no reason for pride. 'Who makes you different from anybody else? And what have you that you did not receive? If. then....received it. why do you boast. as if it were not a gift?' ( l Cor. 4:7). This concern to preserve the unity the Spirit had created. accounts for so much in the... | |
| Jerome H. Neyrey - 2004 - 344 str.
...benefaction. In response, Paul defends the honor of God: "What have you that you have not received? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?" (4:7). Second, God's honor seems to be attacked when some devalue what God values and mock what God... | |
| Steve Brown - 2009 - 276 str.
...puffed up with their own importance, said, For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? ... For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men... | |
| Donald K. McKim - 2004 - 376 str.
...mind came to him as he reflected on Paul's words, "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?" (i Cor. 4:7). He had long believed that conversion to God is a work of God's grace, which alone, by... | |
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