1 Corinthians 4:6-13

⁶Now these things, brothers and sisters, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos on your account, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other. ⁷For who considers you as superior? 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?

⁸You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you! ⁹For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind. ¹⁰We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor! ¹¹Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless; ¹²and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; ¹³when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.