Verse 1 So account of us, &c.; regard us not as masters and leaders of different sects, but simply as the servants of Christ.--Stewards of the mysteries. Stewards are person intrusted with a charge. The apostles were stewards of the mysteries of God, inasmuch as they were intrusted with the charge of divine truth, which had been a mastery, having been, till then, withheld from mankind.