MLV(i)
14 I am not writing these things to be embarrassing you, but I am admonishing you as my beloved children.
15 For even if you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers, for I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.
16 Therefore I am encouraging you. Become imitators of me.
17 Because of this, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you of my ways, the ones in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation.