1 Corinthians 4:12 (WEB)
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
Fathers and councils · 13
Origen
“…in thinking, and saying, and doing what is in harmony with His words, “when reviled, bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat;” and we would not utter “all manner of things shameful to be spoken” against those who have adopted different opinions from ours, but, if possible, use every…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus VII.46Book VII
“As for those, however, who, along with other lessons given by the Divine Word, have learned and practised this, “when reviled to bless, when persecuted to endure, when defamed to entreat,” they may be said to be walking in spirit in the ways of uprightness, to be purifying and setting in order the whole soul.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Follow him who, by diligently ploughing his field, sought for eternal fruit: “Being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure, being defamed we entreat, we are made as the offscouring of the world.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“But if I am perfect (I say this only by way of example, for in truth I am weak), if, then, I am perfect, I bless him that curses me, as Paul also blessed, for he says: “Being reviled we bless.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12.
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John Chrysostom
“Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat.” ( 1 Cor. iv. 11–13.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“With my own hand daily and in the sweat of my brow I labor for my food, knowing that it is written by the apostle: “If any will not work, neither shall he eat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12.
Read the whole comment“And, though he might have lived by the gospel, he laboured day and night with his own hands, that he might not be burdensome to the believers.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12; 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Cor. xii. 14.
Read the whole comment“If apostles who had the right to live of the Gospel laboured with their own hands that they might be chargeable to no man, and bestowed relief upon others whose carnal things they had a claim to reap as having sown unto them spiritual things; why do you not provide a supply to meet your needs?” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 1 Cor. iv. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…pay you back, inasmuch as the man has done so; but when you do that from a regard to God’s precept, it cannot be unfruitful with Him who gives these commands.” — editor's note: This section, which concerns the law of retaliation, grew out of a rule of every-day life which the Pharisees constructed upon a principle of judicature laid…
Read the whole comment““We are cursed, and we bless, being defamed, we entreat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…the perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from his countrymen, perils among false brethren, the living by his own hands, the gospel without charge, the being a spectacle to both angels and men, set in the midst between God and men to champion His cause, and to unite them to Him, and make them His own…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12; ix. 18.
Read the whole comment“Being reviled, we bless: being blasphemed we retreat.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat; we are become as it were the offscourings of the world.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9, 11, 12, 13.
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Cross-references · 35
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.46.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.46.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.63.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.48.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.