11 To this present hour we are both (A)hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; 12 and we toil, (B)working with our own hands; when we are (C)reviled, we bless; when we are (D)persecuted, we endure; 13 when we are slandered, we try to [a]conciliate; 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 console

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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