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11 Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady. 12 And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up. 13 Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now. 14 Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you. 15 For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you. 16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. 17 Therefore sent I Timotheus to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches. 18 And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up. 19 And I will come to you swiftly, if the Lord will, and I shall know not the word of those puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? 1 Corinthians 4:11-21, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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