^{8 Ref} You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

^{9 Ref} For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

^{10 Ref} We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

^{11 Ref} Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

^{12 Ref} We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

^{13 Ref} Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

^{14 Ref} I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

^{15 Ref} For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.

^{16 Ref} I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

^{17 Ref} Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

^{18 Ref} Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.