1 Corinthians 4:9

A Conservative Version

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

Cross References

Hebrews 10:33

Partly made a spectacle, both by reviling and afflictions, and partly having become companions of those so treated.

Romans 8:36

Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

Hebrews 11:36

And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

1 Thessalonians 3:3

for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;

Acts 19:31

And also some of the Asian officers, being their friends, having sent to him, implored him not to give himself into the theatre.

Acts 19:29

And the whole city was filled with the confusion. And they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling companions of Paul.

Psalm 44:22

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

Psalm 71:7

I am as a speculate to many, but thou are my strong refuge.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

1 Corinthians 15:19

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.