Bible verse
We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
1 Corinthians 4:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 4.
8 Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
11 To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
13 when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
14 I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15 Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
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;
ERV
and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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