Add parallel Print Page Options

13 While being reviled[a], we bless; while being persecuted, we endure; while being slandered, we conciliate[b]. We were-made[c] like the sweepings[d] of the world, the scum[e] of all things, up to now.

I Am Writing To Admonish You As My Children. Be Imitators of Me

14 I am writing these things not shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. 15 For if you should have ten-thousand tutors[f] in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or, insulted, reproached.
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or, exhort, encourage, comfort.
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or, became.
  4. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or, rinsings.
  5. 1 Corinthians 4:13 Or, scrapings, dregs.
  6. 1 Corinthians 4:15 Or, guardians, guides.

Bible Gateway Recommends