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 should 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 be in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
18. Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.