1 Corinthians 4:13

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[though] we are slandered, we reply kindly. We have become [like] the scum of the earth, the dregs of all society, to this day.

Cross References

Acts 22:22

The people had listened to Paul speaking up to this point [i.e., until he said the word “Gentiles”], then they raised their voices and shouted, “Do away with such a person from the earth; it is not right for him to live.”

2 Corinthians 6:8

[We have experienced] honor and dishonor; a bad reputation and a good one. [We have been viewed] as deceivers and yet are genuine;

1 Peter 3:21

This water prefigured immersion [into Christ], which now also saves you, not by removing dirt from the [physical] body, but [by serving] as an appeal [or, “pledge”] to God for a clear conscience through the raising of Jesus Christ from the dead.