9. For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
10. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
11. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12. and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
13. being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15. For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
16. I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
17. For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.