1 Corinthians 4:11
to the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are battered, and wander,
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12and labor, 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 places of rest, but the Son of Man has nowhere He may lay the head.”
Acts 16:23having also laid on them many blows, they cast them into prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,
Romans 8:35Who will separate us from the love of the Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 4:8being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? As [if] beside myself I speak—I [am] more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.
2 Timothy 3:11the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured! And the LORD delivered me out of 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 →