13. Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every where 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 will, 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 will ye? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?