10 Whilst we are fools, are you wise in Christ? Whilst we are dishonoured, have you the safety and the glory of the truth? Yes, all that is true, yet I would have you not to glory over it, but to remember the condition of us who taught you.
11 We are still hungering and thirsty, we are still naked and buffeted and amazed,
12 we still work with our hands to gain a living. We are reviled and we bless, we are persecuted and we endure,
13 we are cursed and we turn it aside. Up to the present moment, the very moment that I write to you, we are the outcasts and pariahs of society, its very dregs and offscourings. Think of this when you are tempted to become wise and self-sufficient in your own eyes, to set one man's teaching above another's, and make the Christ a matter of vain-glorious disputation and theory.
14 And yet I would not speak harshly to you and condemn you, but I appeal to you as to children whom I love.
15 Am I your teacher? Am I not rather the father that begot you in the faith by the Gospel and is that not something more than a mere teacher — a man may have many tutors but only one father.
16 If that is our relationship then be like me, be imitative of me.