1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
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8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
3Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.
36Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
14You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
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 punished, and not killed;
14I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.
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 servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
7Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
16But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
13But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy.
14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
3Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.
12If others partake of this right over you, don't 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.
16At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, Because of the enemy and the avenger.
15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
8For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
8neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
6For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness 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 to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated