10. We are fools for Christ’s sake. But you think you are very wise in Christ. We are weak, but you think you are strong. You receive honor, but we are hated.
11. Even now we still do not have enough to eat or drink or enough clothes. We are often beaten. We have no homes.
12. We work hard with our own hands for our food. People curse us, but we bless them. They hurt us, and we accept it.
13. They say evil things against us, but we say only kind things to them. Even today, we are treated as though we are the garbage of the world—the dirt of the earth.
14. I am not trying to make you feel ashamed. I am writing this to give you a warning as if you were my own dear children.
15. For though you may have 10,000 teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Through the Good News I became your father in Christ Jesus.
16. So I beg you, please be like me.