1 Corinthians 4:12 Parallel Translations

We wear ourselves out doing physical labor. When people verbally abuse us, we bless them. When people persecute us, we endure it.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

ASV:

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

BBE:

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;

DBY:

and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;

ERV:

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

WEY:

Homes we have none. Wearily we toil, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we bear it patiently;

WBS:

And labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

WEB:

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

YLT:

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

1 Corinthians 4:12 Cross References

XREF:

John 15:20 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

Acts 18:3 and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

Romans 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Peter 3:9 not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

4:12 And labour with our own hands. Support ourselves by our own hands.
Being reviled, we bless. While preaching the gospel, returned good for evil.

WES:

4:12 We bless - suffer it - intreat - We do not return revilings, persecution, defamation; nothing but blessing.

MHC:

4:7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very absurd and inconsistent, if proud of the free gifts of God. St. Paul sets forth his own circumstances, ver. 9. Allusion is made to the cruel spectacles in the Roman games; where men were forced to cut one another to pieces, to divert the people; and where the victor did not escape with his life, though he should destroy his adversary, but was only kept for another combat, and must be killed at last. The thought that many eyes are upon believers, when struggling with difficulties or temptations, should encourage constancy and patience. We are weak, but ye are strong. All Christians are not alike exposed. Some suffer greater hardships than others. The apostle enters into particulars of their sufferings. And how glorious the charity and devotion that carried them through all these hardships! They suffered in their persons and characters as the worst and vilest of men; as the very dirt of the world, that was to be swept away: nay, as the offscouring of all things, the dross of all things. And every one who would be faithful in Christ Jesus, must be prepared for poverty and contempt. Whatever the disciples of Christ suffer from men, they must follow the example, and fulfil the will and precepts of their Lord. They must be content, with him and for him, to be despised and abused. It is much better to be rejected, despised, and ill used, as St. Paul was, than to have the good opinion and favour of the world. Though cast off by the world as vile, yet we may be precious to God, gathered up with his own hand, and placed upon his throne.

CONC:

Bear Bless Blessings Curse Cursed Curses Endure Hands Hardest Homes Labor Labour None Patiently Persecuted Punishment Quietly Railed Reviled Suffer Toil Undergo Wearily Working

Bear Bless Blessings Curse Cursed Curses Endure Hands Hard Hardest Homes Labour Patiently Persecuted Punishment Reviled Suffer Toil Undergo Work Working

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