1 Corinthians 4:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ For I think that Elohim has exhibited us, the emissaries, last, as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and to men.

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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.

1 Corinthians 4:9 Cross References

Psalm 44:22

But for Your sake we are killed all day long; Reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 71:7

I have become as a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

Acts 19:29

And the entire city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one mind into the theatre, having seized Gaios and Aristarchos, Makedonians, Sha’ul’s fellow travellers.

Acts 19:31

And some of the officials of Asia, being his friends, sent to him begging him not to risk himself into the theatre.

Romans 8:36

As it has been written, “For Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we have expectation in Messiah, we are of all men the most wretched.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and see, we live; as disciplined, and yet not killed;

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one should be unsettled by these pressures, for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all serving spirits sent out to attend those who are about to inherit deliverance?

Hebrews 10:33

On the one hand you were exposed to reproaches and pressures, and on the other hand you became sharers with those who were so treated,

Hebrews 11:36

And others had trial of mockings and floggings and more, of chains and imprisonment.