10. We are fools for Christ, but you are wise through Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!
11. Up to this very moment we are hungry, thirsty, wearing rags, abused, and homeless.
12. We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we respond with a blessing; when we are harassed, we put up with it;
13. when our reputation is attacked, we are encouraging. We have become the scum of the earth, the waste that runs off everything, up to the present time.
14. I’m not writing these things to make you ashamed but to warn you, since you are my loved children.