12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.


In Context

9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 4:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12And labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: