1 Corinthians 4:7-18

For who makes you so distinguished? And, by the way, what do you have which you did not receive? And if indeed you were given it, why this ga'avah, this boastfulness as if you had not received it? Already you have so much, already you ascended to osher (riches) and without us [Shlichim]! You became melechim (kings); I would that you did indeed become melechim that also we might reign as melechim with you. For, omein, I believe that HASHEM has exhibited us, the Shlichim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, as last in the program, condemned to death, because, like wretches under a mishpat mavet (death sentence), we became displayed in the arena for the eyes of the Olam Hazeh, malachim as well as Bnei Adam. We are kesilim (fools) because of Moshiach, but you are chachamim in Moshiach; we are weak, but you are strong; you are treated with honor; we dishonor. Until the present sha'ah (hour) we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten and homeless. And we have parnasah, toiling with our own hands; being reviled, we make a bracha; being persecuted, we endure it: Being defamed by loshon hora, we conciliate. We have become what the earth wants swept out the door, something considered trash the Olam Hazeh wants removed. The purpose of this iggeret is not to bring you under bushah (shame). I write these things as admonishing my beloved yeladim. For, though you may have in Moshiach morei derech numbering ten thousand, you have not many avot, for in Moshiach through the Besuras HaGeulah I became your abba. Therefore, I encourage you, imitate me. Because of this very thing, I sent Timotiyos to you who is my beni haahuv (beloved son) and ne'eman (faithful), trustworthy in HASHEM, who will remind you of my derech baKodesh in Moshiach, even as I give shiurim everywhere in every kehillah. Now as to my coming to you, some were puffed up