哥林多前書 4:11
- 13
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.
直到如今，我們還是又飢又渴，又赤身露體，又挨打，又沒有一定的住處，
並且勞苦，親手作工。被人咒罵，我們就祝福；被人逼迫，我們就忍受；
被人毀謗，我們就善勸。直到如今，人還把我們看作世界上的污穢，萬物中的渣滓。
哥林多後書 6:3
- 10
We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
我們凡事都不叫人有妨礙，免得這職分被人毀謗；
反倒在各樣的事上表明自己是神的用人，就如在許多的忍耐、患難、窮乏、困苦、
鞭打、監禁、擾亂、勤勞、警醒、不食、
廉潔、知識、恆忍、恩慈、聖靈的感化、無偽的愛心、
真實的道理、神的大能；仁義的兵器在左在右；
榮耀、羞辱，惡名、美名；似乎是誘惑人的，卻是誠實的；
似乎不為人所知，卻是人所共知的；似乎要死，卻是活著的；似乎受責罰，卻是不至喪命的；
似乎憂愁，卻是常常快樂的；似乎貧窮，卻是叫許多人富足的；似乎一無所有，卻是樣樣都有的。
