1 Corinthians 4:9-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.

¹¹ Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;

¹² And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

¹³ We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.

¹⁴ I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.

¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

¹⁶ Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.