1 Corinthians 4:12
and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed and yet we blesse. We are persecuted and suffer it.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 5:44But I saye vnto you love youre enimies. Blesse the that coursse you. Do good to them that hate you. Praye for them which doo you wronge and persecute you
Luke 23:34Then sayde Iesus: father forgeve them for they woot not what they do. And they parted his rayment and cast loottes.
Acts 7:60And he kneled doune and cryed with a loude voyce: Lorde laye not this synne to their charge. And when he had thus spoken he fell a slepe.
Acts 20:34Ye knowe well that these hondes have ministred vnto my necessities and to them that were with me.
Romans 12:20Therfore yf thyn enemy honger fede him: yf he thurst geve him drinke. For in so doynge thou shalt heape coles of fyre on his heed:
1 Thessalonians 2:9Ye remember brethren oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you the gospell of God.
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 →