1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

In Context

9For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account.

Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on my account.

Luke 10:16He that hears you, hears me; and he that rejects you, rejects me; and he that rejects me, rejects him that sent me.

Acts 9:16For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.

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 →

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