1 Corinthians 4:9 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For it seems to me that God has made an exhibit of us apostles, exposing us to view last [of all, like men in a triumphal procession who are] sentenced to death [and displayed at the end of the line]. For we have become a spectacle to the world [a show in the world's amphitheater] with both men and angels [as spectators].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

Common English Bible

⁹ I suppose that God has shown that we apostles are at the end of the line. We are like prisoners sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle in the world, both to angels and to humans.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

1 Corinthians 4:9 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 44:22

Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 71:7

I have become a sign to many; you are my strong refuge.

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

Acts 19:29

Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s travelling companions from Macedonia, and all of them rushed into the theatre together.

Acts 19:31

Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theatre.

Romans 8:36

As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’

1 Corinthians 15:19

If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.

2 Corinthians 6:9

known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;

1 Thessalonians 3:3

so that no-one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them.

Hebrews 1:14

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 10:33

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

Hebrews 11:36

Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.