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

⁶ Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other. ⁷ For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor. 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 toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being defamed, we entreat; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.