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

⁶ And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another. ⁷ For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? ⁸ Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become 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 honorable, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place. ¹² And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.