12. And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it:
13. Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.
14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16. Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me.
17. For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.