11. We are still hungering and thirsty, we are still naked and buffeted and amazed,
12. we still work with our hands to gain a living. We are reviled and we bless, we are persecuted and we endure,
13. we are cursed and we turn it aside. Up to the present moment, the very moment that I write to you, we are the outcasts and pariahs of society, its very dregs and offscourings. Think of this when you are tempted to become wise and self-sufficient in your own eyes, to set one man's teaching above another's, and make the Christ a matter of vain-glorious disputation and theory.
14. And yet I would not speak harshly to you and condemn you, but I appeal to you as to children whom I love.