12. and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
13. being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14. I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn you, as to my beloved sons.
15. For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16. Therefore, I beseech you that ye imitate me.