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 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.(A) 12 We work hard with our own hands.(B) When we are cursed, we bless;(C) when we are persecuted,(D) we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage(E) of the world—right up to this moment.

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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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