1 Corinthians 4:16 DBY

¹⁴  Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].

¹⁵  For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings.

¹⁶  I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.

¹⁷  For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

¹⁸  But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;