1 Corinthians 4:10-16

10 aWe are fools for Christ’s sake, but byou are wise in Christ. cWe are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11To the present hour dwe hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and ebuffeted and fhomeless, 12and we glabor, working with our own hands. hWhen reviled, we bless; iwhen persecuted, we endure; 13when slandered, we entreat. jWe have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, kthe refuse of all things.

14I do not write these things lto make you ashamed, but to admonish you mas my beloved children. 15For nthough you have countless
Greek  you have ten thousand
guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For pI became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
16I urge you, then, qbe imitators of me.

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

19For rthough I am free from all, sI have made myself a servant to all, that I might twin more of them. 20 uTo the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21To vthose outside the law I became was one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but xunder the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 yTo the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. zI have become all things to all people, that aaby all means I might save some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, abthat I may share with them in its blessings.

24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives acthe prize? So adrun that you may obtain it. 25Every aeathlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we afan imperishable. 26So I do not run aimlessly; I agdo not box as one ahbeating the air. 27But I discipline my body and aikeep it under control,
Greek  I pummel my body and make it a slave
lest after preaching to others akI myself should be aldisqualified.

2 Corinthians 6:3-10

3We amput no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4but anas servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: aoby great endurance, apin afflictions, aqhardships, calamities, 5 arbeatings, imprisonments, asriots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 atby purity, auknowledge, patience, kindness, avthe Holy Spirit, awgenuine love; 7by axtruthful speech, and aythe power of God; with azthe weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8through honor and dishonor, bathrough slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9as unknown, and bbyet well known; bcas dying, and behold, we live; bdas punished, and yet not killed; 10 beas sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; bfas poor, yet making many rich; bgas having nothing, bhyet possessing everything.

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