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9 For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you. 15 For though ye haue tenne thousand instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you through the Gospel. 16 Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me. 17 For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus, which is my beloued sonne, and faithfull in the Lord, which shall put you in remembrance of my wayes in Christ as I teache euery where in euery Church. 18 Some are puffed vp as though I woulde not come vnto you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lorde will, and will knowe, not the wordes of them which are puffed vp, but the power. 20 For the kingdome of God is not in worde, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, & in ye spirite of meekenes? 1 Corinthians 4:9-21, Geneva Bible of 1587. Public domain.
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