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4Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
²Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
⁴For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
⁸Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
⁹For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
¹¹Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
¹²And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
¹³Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
¹⁴I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
¹⁵For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
¹⁶Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.