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11 To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;
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To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
12 and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
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We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
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when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.
15 For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
16 Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
17 For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord , and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
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For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
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Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.
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But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.
20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
21 What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
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What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
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