⁸as we are praised and dishonored, as we are slandered and honored, and as we use what is right to attack what is wrong and to defend the truth.^bWe are treated as dishonest although we are honest,

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Footnotes

b 6:8 The last part of verse 7 (in Greek) has been moved to verse 8 to express the complex Greek sentence structure more clearly in English.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;

NLTNew Living Translation

We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

through glory and dishonor, through slander and good repute, regarded as deceivers and yet truthful,

KJV 1900King James Version

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

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