1 Corinthians 4:13
being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Cross References
Acts 22:22And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
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 →