![]() In fact, Paul adds that they had been treated as impostors. ![]() Paul did not live for the praise of other people, but he wanted his readers to know that he received it for his work in the ministry, along with insults and lies. Whatever Paul's detractors in Corinth were saying about him had likely been said before. They have been both slandered and praised. They have experienced both honor and dishonor in representing Christ. ![]() He wants his readers to see that they have kept going even through these things. Now he returns to describing how they have been treated in their ministry. ![]() He has listed positive qualities they have shown and evidence of God's power through them. He has listed terrible things endured by himself and his co-workers for Christ's sake. This passage provides a long list of evidences for the integrity of Paul's ministry. ![]()
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