11. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
12. And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.
13. We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.
14. I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.
15. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.
16. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.
18. As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.
19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.