1 Corinthians 4:10

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 set forth us the apostles last, as condemned to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Happy are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say all evil against you falsely[5:11], for my sake.

Matthew 24:9Then will they deliver you up unto affliction, and will kill you; and ye will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

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

Acts 9:16for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

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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