1 Corinthians 4:11-21
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11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
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12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
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14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
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17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
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18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
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19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
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21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?