13. Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16. Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me.
17. For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.
20. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21. What do you wish? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?