1 Corinthians 4:6-13 - The Apostles' Humility

⁶ But, these things, brethren, have I transferred unto myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that, in us, ye might learn the lesson - Not beyond the things that are written -- ! that ye do not puff yourselves up, individually, for this one against that. ⁷ For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But, if thou didst even receive it, why dost thou boast, as though thou hadst not received it? ⁸ Already, ye have become full, already, ye are become rich, - apart from us, ye are become kings! And I would indeed ye had become kings, that, we also, with you, might have together become kings! ⁹ For I think that, God, hath set forth, us the apostles, to be last of all, as men devoted to death, - in that, a spectacle, have we been made, unto the world, - both unto messengers and unto men. ¹⁰ We, are foolish for Christ's sake, but, ye, prudent in Christ; we are weak, but, ye, mighty; ye, all-glorious, but, we, dishonoured. ¹¹ Until the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and are wanderers, ¹² And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on, ¹³ Being defamed, we beseech: as the sweepings of the world have we become, the offscouring of all - until even now.