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1 Corinthians 4:11

SufferingPoverty and the vulnerable

9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

13 when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
KJV
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
WEB
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
ASV
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
DARBY
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
BLB
As far as the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are battered, and wander homeless,
ÅB
Like til denne stund er vi både hungrige og tørste og nakne og mishandlet og hjemløse og mødige,
OTB
Fram til dette øyeblikket er vi både sultne og tørste, og er dårlig kledd, mishandlet og hjemløse;
B1930
Like til denne stund er vi både hungrige og tørste og nakne og mishandlet og hjemløse og mødige,

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Cross references

  • Romans 8:35

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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  • Philippians 4:12

    I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:23–27

    Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

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  • Matthew 8:20

    Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

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  • 2 Timothy 3:11

    my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

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  • Job 22:6

    For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

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  • 2 Corinthians 6:4–5

    Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

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  • Acts 14:19

    Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

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