1 Corinthians 4:13
Good News Translation
when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment!

New Revised Standard Version
when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.

Contemporary English Version
When someone curses us, we answer with kind words. Until now we are thought of as nothing more than the trash and garbage of this world.

New American Bible
when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

Lamentations 3:45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

Acts 22:22 And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.

Context
Fools for Christ
12And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it. 13We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now. 14I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.…
Cross References
Lamentations 3:45
Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

2 Corinthians 6:8
By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:

1 Peter 3:21
Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:12
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