Catholic Public Domain Version
"We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now. "
— 1 Corinthians 4:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.”
“being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. ”
“Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.”
“when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.”
“We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.”
“When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.”
“Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.”
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.
Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.