1 Corinthians 4:11
As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
Cross References
Matthew 8:20And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.
Acts 16:23And having laid many blows upon them, they cast them into prison, having ordered the jailor to guard them securely,
Romans 8:35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 4:8restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing,
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.
2 Timothy 3:11persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. I endured such persecutions, and the Lord rescued me out of them all.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:8-14
Caution against Censoriousness; Distressed Condition of the Apostles. ( a. d. 57.) 7 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? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a… Read the whole commentary →