1 Corinthians 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ When we are slandered and defamed, we [try to] answer softly and bring comfort. We have been made and are now the rubbish and filth of the world [the offscouring of all things, the scum of the earth].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

Common English Bible

¹³ when our reputation is attacked, we are encouraging. We have become the scum of the earth, the waste that runs off everything, up to the present time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.

1 Corinthians 4:13 Cross References

Lamentations 3:45

You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples.

Acts 22:22

Up to this point they listened to him, but then they shouted, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”

2 Corinthians 6:8

in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true,

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,