1 Corinthians 4:12-18

1. 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

2. 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

3. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

4. 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.

5. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

6. 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.

7. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

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