¹¹Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless, ¹²and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are^* reviled, we bless; when we are^* persecuted, we endure; ¹³when we are^* slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“reviled”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“persecuted”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“slandered”) which is understood as temporal

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless; we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no home. We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us. 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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