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12 and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; 13 being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you. 15 For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you. 16 Now I conjure you, be followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my son beloved and faithful in Christ, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach every where in every church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not really come to you. 19 But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power. 21 What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? 1 Corinthians 4:12-21, Haweis New Testament. Public domain.
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