11 Up to this present hour we are both (A)hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; 12 and we labor, (B)working with our own hands; when we are (C)verbally abused, we bless; when we are (D)persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we [a]reply as friends; we have (E)become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or conciliate

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

12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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