1 Corinthians 4:11
New International Version
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

New Living Translation
Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no home.

English Standard Version
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,

Berean Standard Bible
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

Berean Literal Bible
As far as the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clad, and are buffeted, and wander homeless,

King James Bible
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

New King James Version
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

New American Standard Bible
Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;

NASB 1995
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

NASB 1977
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

Legacy Standard Bible
To this present hour we hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless;

Amplified Bible
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are continually poorly dressed, and we are roughly treated, and wander homeless.

Christian Standard Bible
Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

American Standard Version
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Until this hour we are hungry and we are thirsty, we are naked, we are abused, and we have no dwelling place,

Contemporary English Version
Even today we go hungry and thirsty and don't have anything to wear except rags. We are mistreated and don't have a place to live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;

English Revised Version
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
To this moment, we are hungry, thirsty, poorly dressed, roughly treated, and homeless.

Good News Translation
To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;

International Standard Version
We are hungry, thirsty, dressed in rags, brutally treated, and homeless, right up to the present.

Literal Standard Version
to the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are battered, and wander,

Majority Standard Bible
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

New American Bible
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless

NET Bible
To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

New Revised Standard Version
To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless,

New Heart English Bible
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

Weymouth New Testament
To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.

World English Bible
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Young's Literal Translation
unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Fools for Christ
10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored. 11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;…

Cross References
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

2 Corinthians 11:20
In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Philippians 4:12
I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation--to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.


Treasury of Scripture

Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

unto.

1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we not power to eat and to drink?

2 Corinthians 4:8
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 6:4,5
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, …

and are naked.

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

and are buffeted.

Acts 14:19
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

Acts 16:23
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Acts 23:2
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

and have.

Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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1 Corinthians 4
1. In what account the apostles ought to be regarded.
7. We have nothing which we have not received.
9. The apostles spectacles to the world, angels, and men;
13. the filth and offscouring of the world;
15. yet our fathers in Christ;
16. whom we ought to follow.














(11) We both hunger.--From the strong irony of the last verse, the Apostle here passes, in the pathethic and sad description which occupies 1Corinthians 4:11-13, to show how intensely true that last word "despised" was, as expressing his own position, not only in time past, but at the very hour of his writing. Here still there is an implied contrast between their condition ("full," "rich," "kings," of 1Corinthians 4:8) and that of St. Paul himself.

Are naked.--The better reading is, we are in need of sufficient clothing (as 2Corinthians 11:27).

Are buffeted--i.e., are treated like slaves, and not like "kings," as you are.

Have no certain dwellingplace.--To be without a fixed home was a peculiar sign of want and degradation. (See Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23.) . . .

Verse 11. - Unto this present hour. In these three verses he draws a picture of the condition of the apostles, especially of the trials to which he was himself subjected, on which the best comment is in 2 Corinthians 11:23-27. This letter was written from Ephesus, where he had so much to do and to endure (Acts 20:31). Hunger and thirst. "In hunger and thirst, in fastings often" (2 Corinthians 11:27). Are naked (Matthew 25:36; James 2:15; and comp. 2 Corinthians 11:27). And are buffeted. The verb means literally, are slapped in the face (comp. 2 Corinthians 12:7). Such insults, together with scourgings, fell to the lot of St. Paul (Acts 23:2, etc.) and the other apostles (Acts 16:23, 1 Peter 2:20), as well as to that of their Lord (Matthew 26:57, etc.). It showed the utter contempt with which they were treated; for though St. Paul ought to have been exempt from such violence, both as a freeman and a Roman citizen, he was treated as vilely as if he had been a mere foreign slave. Have no certain dwelling place. This homelessness was among the severest of all trials (Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
To
ἄχρι (achri)
Preposition
Strong's 891: As far as, up to, until, during. Or achris akh'-rece; akin to akron; until or up to.

[this]
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

very
ἄρτι (arti)
Adverb
Strong's 737: Now, just now, at this moment. Adverb from a derivative of airo through the idea of suspension; just now.

hour
ὥρας (hōras)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5610: Apparently a primary word; an 'hour'.

we are hungry
πεινῶμεν (peinōmen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 3983: To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. From the same as penes; to famish; figuratively, to crave.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

thirsty,
διψῶμεν (dipsōmen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1372: To thirst for, desire earnestly. From a variation of dipsos; to thirst for.

we are poorly clothed,
γυμνιτεύομεν (gymniteuomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1130: To be poorly clad; To be habitually wearing an under-garment only. From a derivative of gumnos; to strip, i.e. go poorly clad.

we are brutally treated,
κολαφιζόμεθα (kolaphizometha)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 2852: To strike with the fist, buffet; hence: I mistreat violently. From a derivative of the base of kolazo; to rap with the fist.

we are homeless.
ἀστατοῦμεν (astatoumen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 790: To be unsettled, have no fixed abode, lead a vagabond life. To be non-stationary, i.e. homeless.


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