12 and we (A)labor, working with our own hands. (B)When reviled, we bless; (C)when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. (D)We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, (E)the refuse of all things.

14 I do not write these things (F)to make you ashamed, but to admonish you (G)as my beloved children.

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