“For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?”
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you have not received? And if you have received it, why do you boast as though you did not? — three rhetorical questions dismantle Corinthian pride. If something makes you unique, God is its source ('received'). Boasting in received gifts is incoherent; one boasts in one's own achievements. Since the Corinthians' gifts are received, boasting is absurd. All honor reverts to God.
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