12 (A)And labor, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and yet we bless: we are persecuted, and suffer it.

13 (B)We are evil spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the [a]filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, unto this time.

14 [b]I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Such as by sweeping is gathered together.
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:14 Moderating the sharpness of his mock, he putteth them in mind to remember of whom they were begotten in Christ, and that they should not doubt to follow him for an example, although he seem vile according to the outward show, in respect of others, yet mighty by the efficacy of God’s Spirit, as they had trial thereof in themselves.

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