1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are glorious, but we are dishonorable.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.

11until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp,

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are ye when they may despise you, and shall persecute you, and may say all evil against you, falsifying, for my sake.

Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you into tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name,

Luke 10:16He that heareth you heareth me; he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth Him that sent me.

Acts 9:16for I will show him how many things it behooves him to 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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