1 CORINTHIANS 4:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 3
“Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;”
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless — Paul catalogs apostolic hardship: hunger, thirst, nakedness ('in rags,' gymnoi), physical abuse (kolaphizō, struck), homelessness (aperipatoi, unsettled). These are not metaphors but lived reality. The Corinthians' comfort contrasts sharply. Yet Paul's point is not to solicit pity but to show apostolic fidelity despite cost.
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