en_tn/1co/04/13.md

When we are slandered

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "When people slander us" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)

We have become as the refuse of the world

"People began to consider us—and they still consider us—to be the garbage of the world"

the refuse of the world

"the worst kind of garbage in the world"