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

⁶ I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another. ⁷ For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not? ⁸ You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. ¹⁰ For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous. ¹¹ Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled, ¹² and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure, ¹³ being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.