11 Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless, 12 and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are[a] reviled, we bless; when we are[b] persecuted, we endure; 13 when we are[c] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“reviled”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“persecuted”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“slandered”) which is understood as temporal

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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