American Standard Version
"and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; "
— 1 Corinthians 4:12, American Standard Version
“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”
“We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.”
“We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,”
“And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.”
“And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;”
“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”
For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.