1 Corinthians 4:11-15

11Up to this present hour we are both 1hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; 12and we labor, 2working with our own hands; when we are 3verbally abused, we bless; when we are 4persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we 5reply as friends; we have 6become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

14I do not write these things to 7shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved 8children. 15For if you were to have countless 9tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in 10Christ Jesus I 11became your father through the 12gospel.