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8 You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.
12 We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
13 being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
15 Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
16 For this reason I urge you to imitate me.
17 I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation.
18 Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you.