8. You are already satisfied! You are already enriched! You have reigned as sovereigns, apart from us! And I wish, indeed, you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
9. For I think that Elohim has exhibited us, the emissaries, last, as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and to men.
10. We are fools for the sake of Messiah, but you are wise in Messiah! We are weak, but you are strong! You are in esteem, but we are not appreciated!
11. Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are scantily clad, and beaten, and homeless,
12. and labour, working with our own hands. Being cursed, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
13. being insulted, we help. We have been made as the filth of the world – dirt wiped off by all until now.
14. I do not write this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15. For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Messiah, yet not many fathers, for in Messiah יהושע I have brought you forth through the Good News.
16. Therefore I appeal to you, to become imitators of me.