1 Corinthians 4:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

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  • Rom 8:36 : 36 (according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
  • Heb 10:33 : 33 partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
  • Rev 6:9-9 : 9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held, 10 and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?' 11 and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.
  • Rev 7:11-14 : 11 And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, 12 saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, `are' to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!' 13 And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?' 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
  • Rev 17:6-7 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder; 7 and the messenger said to me, `Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that `is' carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
  • Acts 19:29 : 29 and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travellers.
  • Acts 19:31 : 31 and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.
  • 1 Cor 15:30-32 : 30 why also do we stand in peril every hour? 31 Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: 32 if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh, 12 so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.
  • 2 Cor 6:9 : 9 as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;
  • Phil 1:29-30 : 29 because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer; 30 the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.
  • 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,
  • 1 Thess 5:9-9 : 9 because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?

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