1 Corinthians 4:9-13 ▼

9 For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

12 and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

13 when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.