1 Corinthians 4:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

1 Corinthians 4:13 —

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Cross-References

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Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Acts 22:22
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

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Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Apostles Backbiting Bigotry Decision Despondency Devotion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-13)

Here the apostle improves the foregoing hint to a caution against pride and self-conceit, and sets forth the temptations the Corinthians had to despise him, from the difference of their circumstances. I. He cautions them against pride and self-conceit by this consideration, that all the distinction made among them was owing to God: Who maketh thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou didst not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. defamed, we entreat--namely, God for our defamers, as Christ enjoined (Mt 5:10, 44) [Grotius]. We reply gently [Estius]. filth--“the refuse” [Conybeare and Howson], the sweepings or rubbish thrown out after a cleaning. of all things--not of the “World” only.