11. To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless
12. and we toil, working with our own hands. When ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
13. when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.
14. I am writing you this not to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15. Even if you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.