1 Corinthians 4:12

and labour, working with our own hands Consult Paley, Horae Paulinae, 1st Ep. to Corinthians, No. vi, for a full discussion of the remarkable coincidence between this passage and the speech to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20:34, where, though the words were spoken on a different occasion, and are related by a different author, we find statements exactly corresponding. St Paul, in this Epistle written from Ephesus, and in that speech spoken at Ephesus, states that he laboured with his own hands there, and in both cases the remark is dropped undesignedly. The coincidence is the best proof possible of the genuineness both of Epistle and narrative. See also ch. 1 Corinthians 9:6 and Act 18:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8.

being reviled, we bless Compare St Matthew 5:5; Matthew 5:38-45; St Luke 23:34; St John 18:23; 1 Peter 2:23.