1 Corinthians 4:13 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 4:13

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

KJV

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ASV

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

WEB

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

YLT

being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become--of all things an offscouring--till now.

DBT

insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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.
Acts 21:36
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

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Paul's Tenderness and Affection. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 15 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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But O glorious charity and devotion, that would carry them through all these hardships! How ardently did they love God, how vehemently did they thirst for the salvation of souls! Theirs was voluntary, it was pleasing poverty.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

defamed, we entreat--namely, God for our defamers, as Christ enjoined (Mt 5:10, 44) [GROTIUS]. We reply gently [ESTIUS]. filth--"the refuse" [CONYBEARE and HOWSON], the sweepings or rubbish thrown out after a cleaning. of all things--not of the "World" only.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

We are made as the filth of the world, and offscouring of all things - Such were those poor wretches among the heathens, who were taken from the dregs of the people, to be offered as expiatory sacrifices to the infernal gods.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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