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1 Corinthians 4:12 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 4 · verse 12
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:1 Corinthians 4:12 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 4:12 in context
10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- persecuteddiōkōto make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away, to run swiftly in order to catch a…G1377 →
- workingergazomaito work, labour, do work, to trade, to make gains by trading, "do business", to do, work…G2038 →
- reviledloidoreōto reproach, rail at, revile, heap abuse uponG3058 →
- labourkopiaōto grow weary, tired, exhausted , to labour with wearisome effort, to toil, of bodily…G2872 →
- handscheirby the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising…G5495 →
- blesseulogeōto praise, celebrate with praises, to invoke blessings, to consecrate a thing with solemn…G2127 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-13