1 Corinthians 4:11

1 Corinthians 4:11

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a ^aspectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

10 We are ^afools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! ^bWe are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

12 ^aAnd we labor, working with our own hands. ^bBeing reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

13 being defamed, we¹ entreat. ^aWe have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Paul’s Paternal Care

14 I do not write these things to shame you, but ^aas my beloved children I warn you.

15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for ^ain Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Even unto this present hour (axri thv arti wrav). Arti (just now, this very minute) accents the continuity of the contrast as applied to Paul. Ten verbs and four participles from I Corinthians 4:11-13 give a graphic picture of Paul's condition in Ephesus when he is writing this epistle.

We hunger (peinwmen),

we thirst (diywmen),

are naked (gumniteuomen), late verb for scant clothing from gumnhthv,

are buffeted (kolafizomeqa), to strike a blow with the fist from kolafov and one of the few N.T. and ecclesiastical words and see on Matthew 26:67,

have no certain dwelling place (astatoumen) from astatov, strolling about and only here save Anthol. Pal. and Aquila in Isaiah 58:7. Field in Notes, p. 170 renders I Corinthians 4:11 "and are vagabonds" or spiritual hobos.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 4:11:**

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