1 Corinthians 4:13

We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.

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In The King James Version

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

In Context

12And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.

14I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons.

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Cross References

Acts 22:22Now they were listening to him, until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying: “Take this kind away from the earth! For it is not fitting for him to live!”

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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