"Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day." — 1 Corinthians 4:13

1 Corinthians 4:13 · KJV

“Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day.”

— 1 Corinthians 4:13

Verse 12

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Verse 14

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.

1 Corinthians 4 — Context

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet {have ye} not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Cross References

Lamentations 3:45

Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Acts 22:22

And they gave him audience unto this word, and {then} lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a {fellow} from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.