Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment. New Living Translation We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash—right up to the present moment. English Standard Version when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things. Berean Standard Bible when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world. Berean Literal Bible being slandered, we entreat. We have become as the residue of the world, the refuse of all, until now. King James Bible Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. New King James Version being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. New American Standard Bible when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. NASB 1995 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. NASB 1977 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. Legacy Standard Bible when we are slandered, we try to plead; we have become as the scum of the world, the grime of all things, even until now. Amplified Bible When we are slandered, we try to be conciliatory and answer softly. We have become like the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. Christian Standard Bible when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage. Holman Christian Standard Bible when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals. American Standard Version being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. Aramaic Bible in Plain English They accuse us and we beg them. We are as the scum of the world and the offscouring of every person until now. Contemporary English Version When someone curses us, we answer with kind words. Until now we are thought of as nothing more than the trash and garbage of this world. Douay-Rheims Bible We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now. English Revised Version being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. GOD'S WORD® Translation When 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. Good News Translation when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment! International Standard Version When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe. Literal Standard Version being spoken evil of, we plead; we became as filth of the world—of all things an outcast—until now. Majority Standard Bible when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world. New American Bible when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment. NET Bible when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world's dirt and scum, even now. New Revised Standard Version when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day. New Heart English Bible Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. Webster's Bible Translation Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day. Weymouth New Testament when slandered, we try to conciliate. We have come to be regarded as the mere dirt and filth of the world--the refuse of the universe, even to this hour. World English Bible Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. Young's Literal Translation being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Fools for Christ…12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world. 14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.… Cross References Lamentations 3:45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. 2 Corinthians 6:8 through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine; 1 Peter 3:21 And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Treasury of Scripture Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day. Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Acts 22:22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. Jump to Previous Answers Defamed Dirt Dregs Earth Entreat Evil Filth Gentle Hour Insulted Intreat Kindly Mere Moment Offscouring Refuse Regarded Scum Slandered Try Unclean Universe Use Wiped WorldJump to Next Answers Defamed Dirt Dregs Earth Entreat Evil Filth Gentle Hour Insulted Intreat Kindly Mere Moment Offscouring Refuse Regarded Scum Slandered Try Unclean Universe Use Wiped World1 Corinthians 4 1. In what account the apostles ought to be regarded.7. We have nothing which we have not received. 9. The apostles spectacles to the world, angels, and men; 13. the filth and offscouring of the world; 15. yet our fathers in Christ; 16. whom we ought to follow. (13) The filth of the world.--The word here used for "filth" occurs only in one other passage in the LXX. Proverbs 21:18, where it has the idea of an additional expiatory sacrifice. Perhaps the word is used here by the Apostle to include that idea in the sufferings, the description of which here reaches a climax. It is not only that we are the filth and off scouring of all men, but we are so for the sake of others.Verse 13. - Being defamed, we entreat. The expression "we entreat" is very general. It may mean "we entreat men not to speak thus injuriously of us" (Calvin); or "we exhort them to do right." As the filth of the world. The Greek word katharmata has a technical sense, in which it means "men devoted to death for purposes of expiation" (homines piaculares). The word perikatharnmta has the sense of "sin offerings" in Proverbs 21:18; Tobit 5:18. It is, however, doubtful whether this meaning of the word could have been at all familiar to Greek readers, and it is only in a very general and distantly metaphorical sense that the sufferings of God's saints can be regarded as, in any sense of the word, vicarious. It is better, therefore, here to retain the sense of "refuse" (purgamenta, things vile and worthless). The offscouring of all things; perhaps rather, of all men. The word peripsema means "a thing scraped off," and this word also was used in expiatory human sacrifices, where the formula used to victims thus flung into the sea, in times of plague or famine, was, "Become our peripsema' ('Schol. on Ar.;' Plut., 456). Thus in Tobit (5:18), Anna the wife of Tobias says, "Let the money be used as a peripsema for the child;" and Ignatius uses the phrase, "I am your peripsema." From this and the similar phrase in the Letter of Barnabas," I am the peripsema of your love," it seems to have become a current expression of tenderness among Christians, "I am your peripsema." But in this case also it may be doubted whether the sacrificial idea was present in the apostle's mind. He is thinking of scenes which he had already faced and would have to face hereafter, when mobs shouted against him that he was "a pestilent fellow" (Acts 24:5) and not fit to live (Acts 22:22). Parallel Commentaries ... Greek when we are slandered,δυσφημούμενοι (dysphēmoumenoi) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 1426: Evil report, defamation, words of ill omen. From a compound of dus- and pheme; defamation. we answer gently. παρακαλοῦμεν (parakaloumen) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke. Up to ἕως (heōs) Preposition Strong's 2193: A conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until. this moment ἄρτι (arti) Adverb Strong's 737: Now, just now, at this moment. Adverb from a derivative of airo through the idea of suspension; just now. we have become ἐγενήθημεν (egenēthēmen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. [the] scum περικαθάρματα (perikatharmata) Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural Strong's 4027: Refuse, offscouring, filth. From a compound of peri and kathairo; something cleaned off all around, i.e. Refuse. of the τοῦ (tou) Article - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. earth, κόσμου (kosmou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally). [the] refuse περίψημα (peripsēma) Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular Strong's 4067: From a comparative of peri and psao; something brushed all around, i.e. Off-scrapings. of [the world]. πάντων (pantōn) Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. 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