8. Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have reigned without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9. For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonour.
11. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
12. and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
13. being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15. For though ye should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
16. I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.