1 Corinthians 4:7-12

New American Standard Bible

⁷ For who considers you as superior? ^(A)What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

⁸ You are ^(B)already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you! ⁹ For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men ^(C)condemned to death, because we ^(D)have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind. ¹⁰ We are ^(E)fools on account of Christ, but ^(F)you are prudent in Christ! ^(G)We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor! ¹¹ Up to this present hour we are both ^(H)hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; ¹² and we labor, ^(I)working with our own hands; when we are ^(J)verbally abused, we bless; when we are ^(K)persecuted, we endure it;