8. Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.
9. For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
10. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.
11. To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
12. and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
13. insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.
14. Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
15. For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.