1 Corinthians 4:10-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁰ We are ^(A)fools on account of Christ, but ^(B)you are prudent in Christ! ^(C)We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor! ¹¹ Up to this present hour we are both ^(D)hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; ¹² and we labor, ^(E)working with our own hands; when we are ^(F)verbally abused, we bless; when we are ^(G)persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ when we are slandered, we ^[a]reply as friends; we have ^(H)become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

¹⁴ I do not write these things to ^(I)shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved ^(J)children. ¹⁵ For if you were to have countless ^(K)tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in ^(L)Christ Jesus I ^(M)became your father through the ^(N)gospel. ¹⁶ Therefore I urge you, be ^(O)imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this reason I ^(P)have sent to you ^(Q)Timothy, who is my ^(R)beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, ^(S)just as I teach everywhere in every church. ¹⁸ Now some have become ^[b](T)arrogant, as though I were not ^(U)coming to you.