1 Corinthians 4:8-18 Now you are filled! now you are become rich! you have reigned without it! and I wish, indeed, you had reigned, that we also might reign with you.

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ Now you are filled! now you are become rich! you have reigned without it! and I wish, indeed, you had reigned, that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For I think that God has set forth us, the Apostles, last, as persons appointed to death; because we are made a spectacle to the world, even to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools on account of Christ; but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honored, but we are despised. ¹¹ To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place, ¹² and labor, working with our own hands: when reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear: ¹³ when defamed, we beseech: when we are become as the purgations of the world, the filth of all things until now. ¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you; but, as my beloved children, I instruct you. ¹⁵ For, though you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet you have not many fathers; for, to Christ Jesus, through the gospel, I have begotten you. ¹⁶ Wherefore, I beseech you, be imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this purpose I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord: he will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere, in every congregation. ¹⁸ Now, some are puffed up, as if I were not coming to you.