13 Being slandered, we encourage. We are made as the filth of the world, and are the refuse of all things to this day.
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For if you were to have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. In Christ Jesus I have become a father to you through the gospel.
16 So I implore you, be followers of me.
17 Therefore I have sent Timothy to you. He is my beloved son and is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills. And I will know not only what those who are arrogant are saying, but also their power.