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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

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We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

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To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

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I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

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For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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Therefore I urge you, imitate me.