10. We are fools for the sake of Messiah, but you are wise in Messiah! We are weak, but you are strong! You are in esteem, but we are not appreciated!
11. Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are scantily clad, and beaten, and homeless,
12. and labour, working with our own hands. Being cursed, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
13. being insulted, we help. We have been made as the filth of the world – dirt wiped off by all until now.
14. I do not write this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15. For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Messiah, yet not many fathers, for in Messiah יהושע I have brought you forth through the Good News.
16. Therefore I appeal to you, to become imitators of me.
17. For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and trustworthy son in the Master, who shall remind you of my ways in Messiah, as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
18. Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19. But I shall come to you shortly, if the Master desires, and I shall know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20. For the reign of Elohim is not in speech, but in power.
21. What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?