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1 Corinthians 4:11

Suffering Poverty and the vulnerable

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

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.

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.

Compare

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,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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2 Corinthians 11:23–27
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
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2 Timothy 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
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Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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2 Corinthians 6:4–5
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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Acts 14:19
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
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