1 Corinthians 4:11

1 Corinthians 4:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
• New International Version (NIV)To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
• English Standard Version (ESV)To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,
• New King James Version (NKJV)To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

Context of 1 Corinthians 4:11

9As I see it, God has placed us apostles last in line, like people condemned to die. We have become a spectacle for people and angels to look at. 10We have given up our wisdom for Christ, but you have insight because of Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored. To this moment, we are hungry, thirsty, poorly dressed, roughly treated, and homeless. 12We wear ourselves out doing physical labor. When people verbally abuse us, we bless them. When people persecute us, we endure it. 13When our reputations are attacked, we remain courteous. Right now we have become garbage in the eyes of the world and trash in the sight of all people.

1 Corinthians 4:11 word by word

ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας καὶ πεινῶμεν καὶ διψῶμεν καὶ γυμνιτεύομεν καὶ κολαφιζόμεθα καὶ ἀστατοῦμενRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Even untoἄχριachri achris · untilG891
• this presentἄρτιarti · nowG737
• hourὥραhōra · hourG5610
• weπεινάωpeinaō · to hungerG3983
• bothκαίkai · andG2532
• thirstδιψάωdipsaō · to thirstG1372
• are nakedγυμνητεύω, γυμνιτεύωgumnēteuō · be nakedG1130
• are buffetedκολαφίζωkolaphizō · to beatG2852
• have no certain dwellingplaceἀστατέωastateō · be unsettledG790

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 4:11

• 1 Corinthians 9:4Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
• 2 Corinthians 4:8In every way we’re troubled, but we aren’t crushed by our troubles. We’re frustrated, but we don’t give up.
• 2 Corinthians 6:4Instead, our lives demonstrate that we are God’s servants. We have endured many things: suffering, distress, anxiety,
• 2 Corinthians 11:26Because I’ve traveled a lot, I’ve faced dangers from raging rivers, from robbers, from my own people, and from other people. I’ve faced dangers in the city, in the open country, on the sea, and from believers who turned out to be false friends.
• Philippians 4:12I know how to live in poverty or prosperity. No matter what the situation, I’ve learned the secret of how to live when I’m full or when I’m hungry, when I have too much or when I have too little.
• Job 22:6For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.
• Romans 8:35What will separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love?
• Acts 14:19However, Jews from the cities of Antioch and Iconium arrived in Lystra and won the people over. They tried to stone Paul to death and dragged him out of the city when they thought that he was dead.
• Acts 16:23After they had hit Paul and Silas many times, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.
• Acts 23:2The chief priest Ananias ordered the men standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
• 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they Christ’s servants? It’s insane to say it, but I’m a far better one. I’ve done much more work, been in prison many more times, been beaten more severely, and have faced death more often.
• 2 Timothy 3:11You also know about the kind of persecutions and sufferings which happened to me in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions, and the Lord rescued me from all of them.
• Matthew 8:20Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to sleep.”

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 4:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11We both hunger and thirst, etc. - Who would then have been an apostle of Christ, even with all its spiritual honors and glories, who had not a soul filled with love both to God and man, and the fullest conviction of the reality of the doctrine he preached, and of that spiritual world in which alone he could expect rest? See the Introduction, Section 6. Have no certain dwelling place - We are mere itinerant preachers, and when we set out in the morning…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Even unto this present hour - Paul here drops the irony, and begins a serious recapitulation of his actual sufferings and trials. The phrase used here “unto this present hour” denotes that these things had been incessant through all their ministry. They were not merely at the commencement of their work, but they had continued and attended them everywhere. And even then they were experiencing the same thing. These privations and trials were still…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very absurd and inconsistent, if proud of the free gifts of God. St. Paul sets forth his own circumstances, ver. 9 Allusion is made to the cruel spectacles in the Roman games; where men were forced to cut one another to pieces, to divert the people; and where…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13Paul reminds the Corinthians of the hardships he endured for Christ (see 2 Corinthians 6:4–5; 11:23–28).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. (2Co 11:23-27). naked--that is, insufficiently clad (Ro 8:35). buffeted--as a slave (1Pe 2:20), the reverse of the state of the Corinthians, "reigning as kings" (Ac 23:2). So Paul's master before him was "buffeted" as a slave, when about to die a slave's death (Mt 26:67).Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Account
• Corinthians, First Epistle to the
• Instructor
• Offscouring
• Rod
• Shame
• Steward
• Buffet
• Certain; Certainly; Certainty
• Corinthians, First Epistle to the

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings