1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools, on account of Messiah; but ye are wise in Messiah! We are feeble; but ye are strong! Ye are lauded, we are contemned.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

9But I suppose, that God hath placed us legates the last, as for death; since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

11Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no permanent home:

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are ye, when they revile you and persecute you, and speak every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account.

Matthew 24:9And they will deliver you up to tribulation, and will kill you: and ye will be hated by all nations, on account of my name.

Luke 10:16He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.

Acts 9:16For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.

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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