²⁵ Let us lie down in our ^(A)shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, ^(B)from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

⁹ For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men ^(A)condemned to death, because we ^(B)have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind. ¹⁰ We are ^(C)fools on account of Christ, but ^(D)you are prudent in Christ! ^(E)We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor! ¹¹ Up to this present hour we are both ^(F)hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; ¹² and we labor, ^(G)working with our own hands; when we are ^(H)verbally abused, we bless; when we are ^(I)persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ when we are slandered, we ^[a]reply as friends; we have ^(J)become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.