1 Corinthians 4:4
Good News Translation
My conscience is clear, but that does not prove that I am really innocent. The Lord is the one who passes judgment on me.

New Revised Standard Version
I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

Contemporary English Version
I don't know of anything against me, but this doesn't prove I am right. The Lord is my judge.

New American Bible
I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

For.

I know.

Job 27:6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Psalm 7:3-5 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: . . .

John 21:17 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things. . . .

yet.

Job 9:2,3,20 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God. . . .

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Job 40:4 What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Romans 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

but.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

Psalm 26:12 My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

Context
Servants of Christ
3But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self. 4For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.…
Cross References
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord.

Acts 23:1
And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have conversed with all good conscience before God until this present day.

Romans 2:13
For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

1 Corinthians 4:3
But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self.

2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

1 Corinthians 4:3
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