Twentieth_Century(i)
8 Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!
9 For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!
10 We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.
11 To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;
12 We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,
13 We meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.
14 It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
15 Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.
16 Therefore I entreat you-Follow my example.
17 This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master's service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the Faith of Christ Jesus-methods which I follow everywhere in every Church.
18 Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.