12 and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are[a] reviled, we bless; when we are[b] persecuted, we endure; 13 when we are[c] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Believers

14 I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my dear children.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“reviled”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:12 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“persecuted”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“slandered”) which is understood as temporal