1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Cross References
Matthew 8:20And Jesus said to him: The foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have roosts; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.
Acts 16:23And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, and charged the jailer to keep them securely.
Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
2 Corinthians 4:8We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
2 Timothy 3:11my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.
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 →