1 Corinthians 4:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Cross References

Hebrews 10:33

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

Romans 8:36

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

Hebrews 1:14

Are not all angels merely spirits in the divine service, commissioned for the benefit of those who are to inherit salvation?

Hebrews 11:36

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment —

1 Thessalonians 3:3

to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;

2 Corinthians 6:9

'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed,

Acts 19:31

Some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, also sent to beg him not to venture into the amphitheatre.)

Acts 19:29

So the city was filled with confusion. They rushed like one man into the amphitheatre, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were travelling with Paul.

1 Corinthians 15:19

Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most!

2 Corinthians 11:23

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this! ), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;