12. and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
13. insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.
14. Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
15. For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.
16. I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.
17. For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways as they are in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.