1 Corinthians 4:11-21 ▼

11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place.

12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it.

13 We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day.

14 I write not these thynges to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.

15 For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: For in Christe Iesu I haue begotten you through the Gospell.

16 Wherfore, I desire you, be ye folowers of me.

17 For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, whiche is my beloued sonne, & faythfull in the Lorde, which shall put you in remembraunce of my wayes which be in Christe, as I teache euery where in all Churches.

18 Some swel as though I would come no more at you:

19 But I wyll come to you shortly, if the Lorde wyll, & wyll knowe, not the wordes of the which swell, but the power.

20 For the kyngdome of God is not in worde, but in power.

21 What wyl ye? Shal I come vnto you with a rodde, or in loue and in the spirite of mekenesse?