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1 Corinthians 4:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. "
1 Corinthians 4:13
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11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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1 Corinthians 4:1
"So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries."
1 Corinthians 4:2
"Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful."
1 Corinthians 4:3
"But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self."
1 Corinthians 4:4
"For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord."
1 Corinthians 4:5
"Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God."
1 Corinthians 4:6
"Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another."
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