1 Corinthians 4:13 BSB

1 Corinthians 4:13

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

BSB

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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.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Being defamed - Greek, Blasphemed, that is, spoken of and to, in a harsh, abusive, and reproachful manner. The original and proper meaning of the word is to speak in a reproachful manner of anyone, whether of God or man. It is usually applied to God, but it may also be used of people. We entreat - Either God in their behalf, praying him to forgive them, or we entreat them to turn from their sins, and become converted to God. Probably the latter is the sense.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δυσφημούμενοι	dusphēmoumenoi	being defamed
παρακαλοῦμεν,	parakaloumen	we entreat,	G3870 →
ὡς	hōs	As	G5613 →
περικαθάρματα	perikatharmata	[the] scum	G4027 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
κόσμου	kosmou	earth	G2889 →
ἐγενήθημεν,	egenēthēmen	we have become,	G1096 →
πάντων	pantōn	of all [the]	G3956 →
περίψημα	peripsēma	refuse	G4067 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
ἄρτι.	arti	now.	G737 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 22:22
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
leads to
- Acts 25:24
  Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he…
- Acts 21:36
  For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”
- John 19:15
  At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.
- Acts 7:54–57
  On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- Luke 23:18
  But they all cried out in unison: “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”
Through
Lamentations 3:45
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
leads to
- Lamentations 3:14
  I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- Lamentations 2:15
  All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…
- Lamentations 4:14–15
  They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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