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honourable, but we are despised. Even
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unto this present hour we both hunger, and

thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and

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have no certain dwellingplace; And labour,

working with our own hands: being reviled,

we bless; being persecuted, we suffer

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it: Being defamed”— that is, to speak

harsh against — “we intreat: we are made as

the filth of the world, and are the offscouring

of all things unto this day.” Offscouring

means like dirt or dishwater. He’s saying,

“This is what people think of us.” Can you

see the TV preachers saying this? I'll bet

they've never read this. If they have, they

cut it out of their Bible. Paul said in verse

14, “I write not these things to shame you,

but as my beloved sons I warn you.” See,

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