1 Corinthians 4:9-15

9For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonour.

11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

15For though ye should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.