8. Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye reign as kings without us, and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9. For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed 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 prudent in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
11. Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace
12. and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
13. being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14. I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn you, as to my beloved sons.
15. For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16. Therefore, I beseech you that ye imitate me.
17. For this cause I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}.
18. Now some are puffed up as though I will never come to you.
19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.
20. For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in virtue.