10. We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!
11. Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
12. and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
13. when we are slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.
14. I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my dear children.
15. For if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.
16. Therefore I exhort you, become imitators of me.
17. Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
18. But some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
19. But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk of the ones who have become arrogant, but the power.
20. For the kingdom of God is not with talk, but with power.
21. What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?