哥林多前书4:9-14
9我想神把我们使徒明明列在末后，好像定死罪的囚犯。因为我们成了一台戏，给世人和天使观看。10我们为基督的缘故算是愚拙的，你们在基督里倒是聪明的，我们软弱，你们倒强壮。你们有荣耀，我们倒被藐视。11直到如今，我们还是又饥又渴，又赤身露体，又挨打，又没有一定的住处。12并且劳苦，亲手作工，被人咒骂，我们就祝福。被人逼迫，我们就忍受。13被人毁谤，我们就善劝。直到如今，人还把我们看作世界上的污秽，万物中的渣滓。14我写这话，不是叫你们羞愧，乃是警戒你们，好像我所亲爱的儿女一样。
9Instead, I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and angels alike. 10Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed. 11Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no home. 12We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us. 13We 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. 14I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
