1 Corinthians 4:9

New American Bible - revised edition

For as I see it, God has exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and human beings alike.

Cross References

Psalm 44:22

Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalm 71:7

I have become a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge!

Jeremiah 20:18

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

Acts 19:29

The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions.

Acts 19:31

and even some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him advising him not to venture into the theater.

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 15:19

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all. Christ the Firstfruits.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;

1 Thessalonians 3:3

so that no one be disturbed in these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits sent to serve, for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

Hebrews 10:33

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction; at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.

Hebrews 11:36

Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.