Maybe you loaned a brother some money\par and forced him to give you something\par to prove he would pay it back.\par Maybe you took some poor man’s clothes\par as collateral {\cf2\super [34]} for a loan.\par Maybe you did that for no reason.\par
1 Corinthians 4:11 - Easy To Read Version Even now we still don’t have \{enough\} to eat or drink, and we don’t have \{enough\} clothes. We often get beatings. We have no homes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To this hour we have gone both hungry and thirsty; we [habitually] wear but one undergarment [and shiver in the cold]; we are roughly knocked about and wander around homeless. American Standard Version (1901) Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; Common English Bible Up to this very moment we are hungry, thirsty, wearing rags, abused, and homeless. Catholic Public Domain Version Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode; |
Maybe you loaned a brother some money\par and forced him to give you something\par to prove he would pay it back.\par Maybe you took some poor man’s clothes\par as collateral {\cf2\super [34]} for a loan.\par Maybe you did that for no reason.\par
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests to live in. But the Son of Man {\cf2\super [96]} has no place where he can rest his head.”
Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. They persuaded the people to be against Paul. And so the people threw rocks at Paul and dragged him out of the town. The people thought that they had killed Paul.
The men beat Paul and Silas many times. Then the leaders put Paul and Silas in jail. The leaders told the jailer, “Guard them very carefully!”
Ananias, {\cf2\super [449]} the high priest, {\cf2\super [450]} was there. Ananias heard Paul and told the men who were standing near Paul to hit him on his mouth.
Can anything separate us from Christ’s love? No! Can trouble separate us from Christ’s love? No! Can problems or persecution {\cf2\super [70]} separate us from Christ’s love? No! If we have no food or clothes, will that separate us from Christ’s love? No! Will danger or even death separate us from Christ’s love? No!
\{I know you will be patient,\} because you are even patient with a person who forces you to do things and uses you! You are patient with people that trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face!
We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We often don’t know what to do, but we don’t give up.
I know how to live when I am poor. And I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens. I have learned to be happy when I have enough to eat and when I don’t have enough to eat. I have learned to be happy when I have all the things I need and when I don’t have the things I need.
You know about my persecutions (troubles) and my sufferings. You know all the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know the persecutions I suffered in those places. But the Lord saved me from all those troubles.