8 Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!
9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.
10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!
11 Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
12 and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
13 when we are slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.
14 I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my dear children.