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11 To this hour we have gone both hungry and thirsty; we [[a]habitually] wear but one undergarment [and shiver in the cold]; we are roughly knocked about and wander around homeless.

12 And we still toil unto weariness [for our living], working hard with our own hands. When men revile us [[b]wound us with an accursed sting], we bless them. When we are persecuted, we take it patiently and endure it.

13 When we are slandered and defamed, we [try to] answer softly and bring comfort. We have been made and are now the rubbish and filth of the world [the offscouring of all things, the scum of the earth].

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:11 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:12 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies in the Greek New Testament.

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