1 Corinthians 4:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And we still toil unto weariness [for our living], working hard with our own hands. When men revile us [wound us with an accursed sting], we bless them. When we are persecuted, we take it patiently and endure it.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we respond with a blessing; when we are harassed, we put up with it;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 4:12 Cross References

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:44

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

Luke 23:34

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.

Luke 6:28

bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

Acts 7:60

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Romans 12:14

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

Romans 12:20

But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

2 Corinthians 11:8

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;

Ephesians 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labour and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we labour and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

1 Peter 2:23

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

1 Peter 3:14

But and if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 4:19

Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.

Jude 1:9

But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgement, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.