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

⁶ All this, Brothers, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept-'Keep to what is written,' that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another. ⁷ For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not? ⁸ Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you! ⁹ For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men! ¹⁰ We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised. ¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless; ¹² We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance, ¹³ We meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.