1 Corinthians 4:13

American Standard Version (1901)

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

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  • Lam 3:45 : 45 Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 And 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.

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  • 1 Cor 4:8-12
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    8Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

    9For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

  • 45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • 2 Cor 4:7-11
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

    8[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

    9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

  • 4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • 2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

  • 36Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Ps 44:13-14
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    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

    14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

  • 2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

  • 2 Cor 6:8-9
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    8by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;

    9as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

  • 14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  • 12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • 33partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.

  • 2 Cor 4:1-2
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    1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

    2but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

  • 4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 7Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.

  • 4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • 16but if [a man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.

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    13but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

    14If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye] ; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.

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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5[ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • 6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 17For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

  • 21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • 3Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

  • 12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

  • 15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

  • 8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

  • 14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

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    8neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

    9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

  • 32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • 4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

  • 4but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

  • 6For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

  • 13Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

  • 37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated