1 Corinthians 4:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For it seems to me that God has made an exhibit of us apostles, exposing us to view last [of all, like men in a triumphal procession who are] sentenced to death [and displayed at the end of the line]. For we have become a spectacle to the world [a show in the world's amphitheater] with both men and angels [as spectators].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

Common English Bible

⁹ I suppose that God has shown that we apostles are at the end of the line. We are like prisoners sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle in the world, both to angels and to humans.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

1 Corinthians 4:9 Cross References

Psalm 44:22

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 71:7

I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge.

Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Acts 19:29

And the city was filled with the confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

Acts 19:31

And certain also of the chief officers of Asia, being his friends, sent unto him, and besought him not to adventure himself into the theatre.

Romans 8:36

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?

Hebrews 10:33

partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.

Hebrews 11:36

and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: