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When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_corinthians/4-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_corinthians/4-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_corinthians/4-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_corinthians/1.htm">1 Corinthians</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_corinthians/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-11.htm" title="1 Corinthians 4:11">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 4:12 <a href="../1_corinthians/4-13.htm" title="1 Corinthians 4:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_corinthians/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_corinthians/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />We work hard with our own hands, and when people abuse us, we wish them well. When we suffer, we are patient. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and we toil, working with our own hands. When ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_corinthians/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.</p><p class="hdg">labour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/9-6.htm">1 Corinthians 9:6</a> Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/18-3.htm">Acts 18:3</a> And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/20-34.htm">Acts 20:34</a> You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/2-9.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:9</a> For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_thessalonians/3-8.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:8</a> Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/4-10.htm">1 Timothy 4:10</a> For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.</p><p class="hdg">being reviled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-44.htm">Matthew 5:44</a> But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/6-28.htm">Luke 6:28</a> Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/23-34.htm">Luke 23:34</a> And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/7-60.htm">Acts 7:60</a> And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/12-14.htm">Romans 12:14,20</a> Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-23.htm">1 Peter 2:23</a> Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-9.htm">1 Peter 3:9</a> Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jude/1-9.htm">Jude 1:9</a> When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.</p><p class="hdg">being persecuted.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-11.htm">Matthew 5:11</a> Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-14.htm">1 Peter 3:14</a> But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/4-12.htm">1 Peter 4:12-14,19</a> Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_corinthians/4.htm">Fools for Christ</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.</span> <span class="reftext">13</span>We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/15-20.htm">John 15:20</a></span><br />Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/18-3.htm">Acts 18:3</a></span><br />And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/8-35.htm">Romans 8:35</a></span><br />Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/12-14.htm">Romans 12:14</a></span><br />Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/11-8.htm">2 Corinthians 11:8</a></span><br />I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-28.htm">Ephesians 4:28</a></span><br />He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-9.htm">1 Peter 3:9</a></span><br />Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.<span class="p"><br /><br 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