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.
19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.