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For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
¹⁰*We* are fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.
¹¹To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
¹²and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
¹³insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 4:8‑10• ⁸every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
⁹persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
¹⁰always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body; (2 Cor. 4:8‑10)

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2 Cor. 6:3‑10• ³giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
⁴but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
⁵in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,
⁸through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;
⁹as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;
¹⁰as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things. (2 Cor. 6:3‑10)

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2 Cor. 11:23‑27• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
²⁴From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.
²⁵Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:
²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
²⁷in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:23‑27)

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2 Tim. 2:9‑10• ⁹in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.
¹⁰For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:9‑10)

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2 Tim. 3:10‑12• ¹⁰But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,
¹¹persecutions, sufferings: what sufferings happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.
¹²And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. (2 Tim. 3:10‑12)

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Heb. 11:26• ²⁶esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense. (Heb. 11:26)

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Heb. 13:13• ¹³therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach: (Heb. 13:13)

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1 Peter 4:14‑15• ¹⁴If ye are reproached in the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
¹⁵Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters; (1 Peter 4:14‑15)

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1 Tim. 6:17• ¹⁷Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment; (1 Tim. 6:17)

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Psa. 37:40• ⁴⁰And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him. (Psa. 37:40)

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Psa. 52:8• ⁸But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever. (Psa. 52:8)

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Psa. 84:12• ¹²Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man that confideth in thee! (Psa. 84:12)

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Psa. 118:8• ⁸It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in man; (Psa. 118:8)

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Isa. 12:2• ²Behold, *God is my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation. (Isa. 12:2)

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Isa. 50:10• ¹⁰Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light,--let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God. (Isa. 50:10)

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Jer. 17:7• ⁷Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is. (Jer. 17:7)

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Dan. 3:28• ²⁸Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and who changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God! (Dan. 3:28)

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Nah. 1:7• ⁷Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. (Nah. 1:7)

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Matt. 27:43• ⁴³He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will have him. For he said, I am Son of God. (Matt. 27:43)

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Rom. 15:12‑13• ¹²And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.
¹³Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 15:12‑13)

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1 Peter 1:21• ²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. (1 Peter 1:21)

the living.

1 Tim. 3:15• ¹⁵but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. (1 Tim. 3:15)

the saviour.

1 Tim. 2:4,6• ⁴who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times; (1 Tim. 2:4,6)

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Psa. 36:6• ⁶Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast. (Psa. 36:6)

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Psa. 107:2,6‑43• ²Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,
⁶Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
⁷And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
⁸Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
⁹For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.
¹⁰Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,
¹¹Because they had rebelled against the words of *God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; …
¹²And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:
¹³Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses;
¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
¹⁵Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.
¹⁷Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;
¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:
¹⁹Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses;
²⁰He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.
²¹Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,
²²And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.
²³They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,
²⁴These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.
²⁵For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:
²⁶They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;
²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:
²⁸Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;
²⁹He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:
³⁰And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
³¹Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
³²Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.
³³He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
³⁴A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
³⁵He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;
³⁶And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;
³⁷And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;
³⁸And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
³⁹And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
⁴⁰He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;
⁴¹But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.
⁴²The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
⁴³Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah. (Psa. 107:2,6‑43)

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Isa. 45:21‑22• ²¹Declare and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath caused this to be heard from ancient time? who hath declared it long ago? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no God else beside me; a just *God and a Saviour, there is none besides me.
²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am *God, and there is none else. (Isa. 45:21‑22)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

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John 3:15‑17• ¹⁵that every one who believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁷For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him. (John 3:15‑17)

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1 John 2:2• ²and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

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1 John 4:14• ¹⁴And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:14)

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John 5:24• ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life. (John 5:24)

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1 John 5:10‑13• ¹⁰He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.
¹¹And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
¹³These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:10‑13)

• The highest truths do not supersede or even enfeeble the unchanging truth in its lowest range of application every day. It is the unfailing mark of the heterodox where it is so; and this let faithful men note well. (“On 1 Timothy 4:6-16” by W. Kelly)

• It was this same only God, Creator and Saviour, in whom he trusted while laboring for the Lord. (“1 Timothy 4” by J.N. Darby)

• We may be prepared to labor and be prominent before men, and thus labor and gain applause, or labor to exalt self. But if piety is behind our labor, it will inevitably mean labor and reproach. (“Warnings Against Religious Flesh and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

W. Kelly Translation

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for unto this end wea labour andb suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on a living God who is Saviourc of all men, especially of faithful [men].

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a

"Both" is not represented in the oldest copies, nor in any ancient versions, contrary to the T. R.

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"We strive" or "we combat" (agōnizometha) is supported by many MSS. against others which have "suffer reproach" as the T. R.

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"Saviour," in the full sense of the word, goes too far; it should rather be "preserver."