Catholic Public Domain Version
"And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution. "
— 1 Corinthians 4:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”
“and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ”
“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 that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.
So we are fools because of Christ, but you are discerning in Christ? We are weak, but you are strong? You are noble, but we are ignoble?
Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady.
And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.
We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.
I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons.
For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.