12 and we toil, (A)working with our own hands; when we are (B)reviled, we bless; when we are (C)persecuted, we endure; 13 when we are slandered, we try to [a]conciliate; we have (D)become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

14 I do not write these things to (E)shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved (F)children.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or console