“We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.”
— WEB
1 Corinthians 4:12
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”
— KJV
“and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;”
— ASV
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Commentary
working with our own hands--namely, "even unto this present hour" (Co1 4:11). This is not stated in the narrative of Paul's proceedings at Ephesus, from which city he wrote this Epistle (though it is expressly stated of him at Corinth, compare Act 18:3, Act 18:19). But in his address to the Ephesian elders at Miletus (Act 20:34), he says, "Ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities," &c. The undesignedness of the coincidence thus indirectly brought out is incompatible with forgery.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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