1 Corinthians 4:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.

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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

Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.

Acts 22:22

Up to this word they listened to him; then they lifted up their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not 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

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,