1 Corinthians 4:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.

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  • Lam 3:45 : 45 Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
  • Acts 22:22 : 22 And they heard him vnto this worde, but then they lift vp their voyces, and sayd, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not meete that he should liue.

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  • 1 Cor 4:8-12
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    8Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rich: ye reigne as kings without vs, and would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you.

    9For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men.

    10We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.

    11Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,

    12And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.

  • 45Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

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    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of that power might be of God, and not of vs.

    8Wee are afflicted on euery side, yet are we not in distresse: we are in doubt, but yet wee despaire not.

    9We are persecuted, but not forsaken: cast downe, but we perish not.

    10Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.

    11For we which liue, are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

  • 4Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

  • 3Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

  • 2But euen after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated at Philippi, (as ye knowe) we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospell of God with much striuing.

  • 36As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

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    13Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.

    14Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, & a nodding of the head among the people.

  • 2Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.

  • 2 Cor 6:8-9
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    8By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:

    9As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:

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

  • 12Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

  • 33Partly while yee were made a gazing stocke both by reproches & afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro.

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    1Therefore, seeing that we haue this ministerie, as we haue receiued mercy, we faint not:

    2But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.

  • 4But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 7Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill, not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates.

  • 4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • 16But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.

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    13But reioyce, in asmuch as ye are partakers of Christs suffrings, that when his glory shall appeare, ye may be glad and reioyce.

    14If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified.

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    4So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

    5Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.

  • 6Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

  • 17For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.

  • 21I speake as concerning the reproche: as though that we had bene weake: but wherein any ma is bold (I speake foolishly) I am bold also.

  • 3Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercie vpon vs: for we haue suffered too much contempt.

  • 12If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.

  • 16For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.

  • 15That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

  • 8For brethren, we woulde not haue you ignorant of our affliction, which came vnto vs in Asia, howe we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, euen of life.

  • 14For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes,

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    8Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.

    9Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

  • 32But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.

  • 4And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.

  • 4But as we were allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please men, but God, which approoueth our hearts.

  • 6But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.

  • 13Let vs goe foorth to him therefore out of the campe, bearing his reproch.

  • 37They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented: