So let us be accounted by you as ministers of Mashiyach and stewards of the mysteries of Elohim.

Here then it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

But this is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by any son of man. But neither do I judge myself.

For I am not conscious in myself of anything flagrant, yet I am not justified by this, for my judge is Master YHWH.

Therefore do not judge before the time or until Master YHWH comes, who will light up the hidden things of darkness and reveal the thoughts of men's hearts, and then each one will have due praise from Elohim.

These things, my brothers, I have applied to the person of myself and of Apollos for your sakes, that in us you may learn not to think of men above what is written, and that no one may exalt himself over his companion because of any person.

For who explores you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Already you are full, and you have become rich, and without us you have reigned as kings! And I wish you had reigned, that we also might reign with you.

For I suppose that Elohim has set us the apostles last, as appointed to death, that we have become a spectacle to the world and to messengers and to the sons of men.

We are fools because of Mashiyach, but you are wise in Mashiyach. We are weak, and you are strong. You are praised, and we are despised.

Until this hour we hunger and thirst and are naked and are beaten and have no permanent home.

And we toil, working with our hands: they revile us, and we bless; they persecute us, and we endure.

They revile us and we entreat them; we are like the filth of the world and the scrapings of everyone up to now.

I do not write these things as shaming you, but as beloved children I admonish.

For if you have ten thousand tutors in Mashiyach, yet not many fathers; for in Y'shua the Mashiyach I begot you through the good news.

I ask of you therefore that you imitate me.

Because of this I sent Timotheos to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in Master YHWH, that he may remind you of my ways in Mashiyach, as I teach in all the assemblies.

Now some of you are puffed up as though I would not dare come to you.

But if Master YHWH wills, I will come to you quickly, and I will know not the word of those who exalt themselves, but their power.

For the kingdom of Elohim is not in word, but in power.

How do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and with a meek spirit?